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The Good Partner Map
Understand when your sales pitch for design is working, when it's not, and what do about it.
Ryan Rumsey
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Letting others have your way is a communication superpower for designers
By understanding the wants and needs of those you work with, you can become influential as a designer
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Increase the odds your team can win
Great design leaders are those who intentionally create multiple paths to success.
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Finding Partnership - Positioning Fit
Examine how the power dynamics work inside your company so we can move peers and stakeholders from skeptics to adopters.
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The Multi-Mode Advantage: Managing a Range of Partnerships through Positioning
For design leaders, reading the room is everything. While conventional wisdom suggests that positioning drives perception, the reality for design teams is often reversed: your ability to read and respond to shifting stakeholder perceptions should drive your positioning decisions.
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Role-Playing Accelerator: You are the CPO of Figma
Join us for our next Role-Playing Cohort starting January 7, 2025
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Finding Design Practice - Partnerships Fit
Instead of thinking about partnerships as a separation of skills and responsibilities, think about them in a similar way that customers adopt new products and services. Some partners are early adopters, while there are others who adopt late – often begrudgingly.
The Importance of Mapping Power Dynamics
Trying to convert powerful skeptics into design believers takes a lot of emotional energy. There's a more practical, and dare I say it, more strategic way make it worth your while.
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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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Announcing Our New Features and Pricing
In line with our commitment to helping design leaders drive more impact in their work, we’ve rolled out new features while continuing to provide affordable pricing.
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Getting unstuck as a design leader–an interview with Carolina Tod
Carolina Tod is a Brazilian & afro-indigenous designer based in São Paulo. She's a partner and independent publisher at Produtos para Humanos, and Design Manager at Fintech Magalu.
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Imago - a pragmatic way to practice active listening
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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Webinar: How Amy Sheppard unlocks collective innovation across teams
Methods and rituals to unlock new depths of creativity and innovation
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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.