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A workflow to ship better designed software with LLMs
I've been experimenting with different approaches for shipping my designs with the help of LLMs. I've found a process that is working really well.
Are you willing to be the designer that has influence?
We all want to be the type of designer who has influence at work. Are you willing to be the designer that has it? Let’s find out.
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Why Designers might actually like data: A case for gaining statistical literacy (video)
Two particularly powerful tools to validate your design choices and predict your impact are correlation and linear regression analysis.
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Imago - a shortcut to make your ideas the obvious choice
Generally speaking, Empathy Maps are helpful to understand additional perspectives, but for many of us, it is difficult to be empathetic in the moment. Especially when we disagree with someone.
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PLAY: Rapidly Figure Out Design Team Priorities
A simple matrix-like tool to simultaneously focus on eliminating and reducing the activities that aren’t producing the results you need so that you can raise and create the activities that are or will.
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Strategy Maps: Connecting Design to Business Objectives
Strategy Maps are powerful tools that can help bridge this gap by visualizing the relationships between different business goals and the role of design in achieving them.
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3 Key Responsibilities When Transitioning into Design Leadership
Many designers aspire to transition from individual contributors to design leaders. This shift comes with its own set of challenges and responsibilities.
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You're now in charge. What's the plan?
Four key elements to develop a comprehensive, winning plan to lead a design team.
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Change your inner narrative with neuroscience and post-its
Use neuroscience (and post-its) to hack your brain from negative thought loops
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Design is biased. And, your execs know it.
It's critical to find data, leverage it, and examine your own bias. Doing so means you'll be a better advocate for the value of design because I could anticipate how executives might react when I presented data like this.
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5 steps the most effective designers I know overcome self-doubt
Effective transformation from designer to design leader starts and ends with nuance. The most effective designers I know leverage nuance to overcome self-doubt in five steps.
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Selling a Design System before asking for buy-in
An “adoption first” strategy for an internal Design System at EA
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Introducing a culture of design inside existing company culture
I have never been in a position where I could declare culture change is going to happen. Here's how I've successfully introduced a culture of design anyway.
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Connect Design and Business Outcomes with Strategy Maps
Simple in structure, a Strategy Map shows the relationships between organizational objectives through underlying quality perspectives.
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Measuring Design is an act of bravery.
It's easier to debate the value of measuring design than it is to be more accountable for a decision. The most influential design leaders let the measures speak for themselves.
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How building repeatable systems helps you grow as a design leader
An interview with Christina Goldschmidt, Vice President of Product Design at Warner Music Group, on how she creates repeatable systems through brain hacking, has learned to give things away, maintains her core self, and much more.