Month: August 2021

Leadership By Design 2021 Design for Cognitive Bias: Using Mental Shortcuts for Good Instead of Evil Users’ minds take shortcuts to get through the day. Usually they’re harmless. Even helpful. But what happens when they’re not? In this talk I’ll...

    Leadership By Design 2021 Dear Design Leader – Explanations & Experiences with Leading Designers ​​Leadership isn’t easy, and finding someone to ask questions to, or to give coaching and advice can sometimes be a challenge. Fear not, design...

Leadership By Design 2021 The Cost of Not Conducting Qualitative Research in Organizations When we fail to include the human story in the designs of our products and services, we fail humans. twig+fish has worked with global customers and we...

  Leadership By Design 2021 A Reading of “Someday a Bird Will Poop on You: A Life Lesson” Megan Kellie and Sue Salvi read through their book, “Someday a Bird Will Poop on You: A Life Lesson,” which uses avian...

Leadership By Design 2021 What Therapy Taught Me About Design & Creating Healthy Teams Maintaining a healthy self and extending that to our professional lives are journeys. The root cause of many of our inner and outer conflicts stem from...

Leadership By Design 2021 Redesigning Leadership After 45 years in the labor force, more than 30 of them in so-called leadership positions, I’ve learned that just about everything I was ever taught formally about leadership was wrong. My advice today...

All Kinds of Minds Keynote at Leadership By Design 2021.

Leadership By Design 2021 Meaningful Product Inclusion This year Google Maps introduced a Black-owned business attribute. Learn more about how this project started, what it took to make it happen, and ways you can bring inclusive product development practices into...

Leadership By Design 2021 From the Ground Up: Growing a New Practice at Your Organization Leading a practice is hard enough. But what if it doesn’t even exist yet, and how do you even get started? We’ll discuss lessons learned—including...

Leadership By Design 2021 You Can Do It! Leading Through New, Unprecedented Challenges with Patience & Perseverance Leading and managing design teams might be reaching peak difficulty. With high expectations from the people you support and the managers above you,...