Jake Poses, Founder & CEO of Jumprope, spoke at Design Driven in November 2019. He shared how he’s learned to earn designers’ trust through 1) geeking out on design, 2) being the voice of the customer, 3) paint a compelling vision and a number of other tactics.

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