Colin Narver

Senior Design Manager | Product Manager | Founder

Experienced and award-winning product designer, manager and team leader with a demonstrated history of building teams and shipping products. Read my resume or see a detailed breakdown of my experience here.

Selected writings on design leadership and design awards:

Building the App Store for the enterprise - A one year retrospective on designing the Red Hat Marketplace
- The Red Hat Marketplace has won eight design awards since launching in Fall of 2020:
  - Webby Awards
    https://zcu.io/F8jK
    - 2022 Honoree: Apps and Software - Software Services & Platforms E-Commerce
  - Indigo Design Awards
    https://www.indigoawards.com/winners
    - Gold: UX, Interface & Navigation
    - Silver: Animation & Illustration for Websites
  - European Product Design Awards
    https://www.productdesignaward.eu/winners/epda/2021/
    - Winner: Product User Interface Design
  - Stratus Awards
    https://www.bintelligence.com/blog/2021/10/5/60-cloud-computing-companies-win-2021-stratus-awards-for-cloud-computing
    - Winner: Cloud Disruptor
  - w3 Awards
    https://www.w3award.com/winners/gallery/
    https://www.w3award.com/winners/list/view/?event=1046&award=2&_p=9
    - Silver: General Websites, Computer/IT
  - IF Design Awards
    https://ifdesign.com/en/
    - 2022 Winner: User Interface: Interfaces for digital media
    - 2022 Winner: User Experience: Product UX
My secret weapon for helping executives understand the value of design - Demonstrating value through the power of “playbacks” and IBM Design Thinking
I’ve spent half this year hiring designers. Here’s what I discovered. - Seven key differentiators of exceptional designers
Let yourself be broken. - Failure is scary. When we have the courage to be receptive to it, we can transform our lives and our businesses.
Empathy is not a soft skill. It’s a superpower. - Understanding your users and their needs is not a ‘nice to have’. It’s a strategic imperative in software design.