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Leadership By Design 2020 Hunting for Your Dinner: Finding Opportunities & Adding Value in Wicked Times Designers have always had to be creative and thoughtful about finding their next project, job, or opportunity. Any illusions of control we had disappeared...

Leadership By Design 2020 Betazoid Leadership in a Locked Down Federation “To admit that you’re afraid gives you strength.” — Counselor Troi to Lieutenant Worf (Star Trek: TNG) As a leader, being/feeling/appearing vulnerable can be uncomfortable and make us doubt...

Leadership By Design 2020 Beyond Tactical Onboarding: What Every Designer Needs to Know to be Successful Good design leaders know that designers must think beyond the interface and user needs and work on the business, not just in the business....

  Leadership By Design 2020 New Layer Podcast Live! New Layer is a conversational podcast on everything related to digital product design, with hosts Jasmine Friedl and Tanner Christensen. We discuss design careers, tools, education, critique, and much more.

Leadership By Design 2015: Prototypes, Process & Play So You’ve Got A Seat At the Table. Now What? In recent years we’ve seen an emergence of design-led and design driven companies. Breathless articles in technology blogs herald the rise of...

Leadership By Design 2015: Prototypes, Process & Play All of Us Are Smarter Than Some of Us: How to Harness Your Team’s Collective Intelligence Until relatively recently, innovation was considered the domain of a select few “gifted” thinkers who sit...

Leadership By Design 2015: Prototypes, Process & Play Advancing Strategic Design Without Going Against the Current Enable your organization to embrace and profit from the benefits of a design-led work culture. Culture change is often perceived as long and slow—but...

Leadership By Design 2015: Prototypes, Process & Play Redesign Our Design Thinking Design is beautiful and beautiful things are well-designed. While this is true, it isn’t the whole truth—aesthetics definitely are NOT everything. Sometimes the best design isn’t what you...

Leadership By Design 2015: Prototypes, Process & Play How to be a Designer CEO at a Startup without Being a Jerk As designers we’re told to practice empathy, learning our users’ habits, unspoken needs, and desires. We use that knowledge...

Leadership By Design 2015: Prototypes, Process & Play 5 Tips for Designers from a Terrible Designer I’ve been in the position to lead designers toward best-in-class, top-notch design for some of the most well-known brands in the world. Funny thing...