THE MISSION
What We Enable People To Do
Infrastructure is complicated, but managing it shouldn’t be. We design so that people do their jobs easier, get in and out of our software quicker, and focus on bigger and better things.
TEAM VALUES
Let’s Get All Hands On Deck
The best way to create strong collaborative cultures is to work with principles. Here’s a little about us.
United Together by Our Differences
We agree to show up as our authentic selves. Recognition of our global and diverse workforce allows for a safe environment that is open to different points of view, identities, and abilities, which makes us all better together.
Relentless Co-Creation
We reject siloed work in favor of co-creation by maximizing our time with our cross-functional partners as a way to connect the dots across teams and products.
Live in The Customer’s Mind
We put our relationships with our customers first by metaphorically sitting with them. We take the longest view of our relationships by focusing on customer outcomes versus team outputs. We do this through a continuous feedback loop.
Leading With Empathy Through Transparency
We inspire each other to lead through empathetic openness in all our interactions. We say less and ask more by starting with questions and listening to others. Through this cycle of empathy and listening, we foster a loop of honest and direct feedback.
Through Learning We Grow
We exercise a growth mindset by taking smart risks and failing fast. We use the pattern of discover, define, ideate, and learn as a way to better ourselves and the solutions we co-create.
Inspire Action
We trust each other by giving autonomy to our teammates. With a less is more approach, we harness the energy of solution-seeking with product delivery.
OUR DESIGN TRANSFORMATION
Moving Enterprise Design Forward
You may ask, what exactly does it look like to participate in a once in a blue moon design transformation of a tech giant?
Built Clarity, Our Design System
With a team of 11, we built an open-source design system ground-up that is now adopted across our 100+ products.
Created An End-To-End Process
With over 100+ products, we started to create end-to-end stories to define a cohesive user experience across product boundaries.
Doubled Our Team Size
We continued to grow our team. Executing means having the right staff design leadership and a talented team. We continued to aggressively hire to build out the team.
Continue To Transform Design At VMware
Welcome in talented and collaborative designers who will define user-centric vision of our products.
Built User Research Infrastructure
It can be hard to reach enterprise customers for user research, so we built a base of 1000+ users that we speak to every week.
Through SHAPE, Our First Internal Design Conference
We continue to grow awareness on the role of design and look for better ways to collaborate. We also flew in our global design team!
Won the IF Design Award
Our Wavefront design team won VMware’s first design award as they continued to push the bounds of enterprise design.
Thoughts We’d Like to Share With You
Things we’re proud of or things we’ve learned. Whenever we grow, we’d like to give back to the design community.
Searching for a north star: design team principles
We chose our design team principles to be Actionable, Memorable and Reflect the company’s culture and brand.
Building a More Inclusive and Equitable Design Community
Learn about why this is a priority for VMware Design and get an inside look at our interview process.
Introducing Transport and VMware Developer Experience (DX)
We now have a dedicated Developer Experience team focused on helping our engineers, partners and customers to build great experiences.
We’re Actively Hiring!
Join Us! As we change transform into reality the digital transformation.