Four categories of product quality (and design) health
Adding quality factors products and services that help teams make decisions around quality, and tracking the effectiveness of those decisions
Ryan Rumsey
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Value-based decision making
Distinguish between two different types of values, “actual” and “perceived”, to ensure you're communicating value in the way executives expect.
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The questions I ask during an interview to know if I want the job.
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The ultimate list of Design and DesignOps metrics
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Growing as a design leader–an interview with Christina Goldschmidt
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Turn your OKRs into logical, measurable categories of design health – introducing POKRs
Expanding traditional OKR methodology with Perspectives – categories that show strategic objectives connect and build upon one another.
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5 steps to find stakeholders and key collaborators who will champion your ideas.
There will always be people who are skeptical of design. Great design leaders focus on early adopters and executives who will be your champions.
Active listening is a powerful way to grow your influence–and it's learnable
Learn a dialogue script to practice active listening with your colleagues to ask for small behavior changes.
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Create strong business cases with The Situation, Complication, Resolution (SCR) framework
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SWOT and SOAR; your stakeholders' favorite way to evaluate risk
Learn two of the most effective ways to make a hard decision and get a clear, shared plan moving forward.
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The Best Way to See How Everyday Design Work Connects to Business is to Make a Map.
Map the direct path from your day-to-day design work to show exactly how design improvements drive business results.
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When OKRs work well (and don’t)
Over the last 20+ years, many other companies have implemented (or tried to) OKRs with varying degrees of success; here's what works well and doesn't.
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When you lead Design, Design is the product.
When you lead Design teams, most of your colleagues don't think about design as a craft or practice. They think about it as a group of people with specific skills. Your challenge is to know who is an early adopter of those skills, and who is more skeptical.