Why Andrew Watterson Designs at Asana

Andrew Watterson was sure that he’d work for a design agency in New York City before stumbling upon what he calls a long shot opportunity to be a UX designer at Meebo. After three years at Meebo, Andrew found himself more of a startup guy than he ever realized. Now working with a top notch design team at Asana, he talks with us about the value that Asana puts on the design team, the ownership each team member gets, and their vision for revolutionizing task management.

Asana has big plans for 10 years down the road. Replacing email as a task list? Check. Having government run their operations via Asana? Check.

Even with these major plans, they want to maintain a small and highly productive team. Asana wants designers who aren’t afraid to tackle everything.

We want people who can take ownership over the full process of their design. We want to give our designers a project. \[We want to say\] ‘We’re doing this new feature, we want to optimize for bigger teams, we want to do a mobile app, we want to present your tasks in a more visual way. GO.

This means being able to design the interaction, create the visuals, do some coding, and QA test.

I’ve gotten to grow into visual design…I’ve gotten to get a lot closer to the code, which I sort of dabbled in before but never really did in an official capacity. So there’s been so much career development and learning new things and learning from all of the people at Asana.

Listen to our entire interview with Andrew below, and be sure to check out their post on why they’ve partnered with Bridge here.