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Underpromise, Overdeliver: The Greatest Lie a Business Consultant Ever Told
Underpromise, Overdeliver: The Greatest Lie a Business Consultant Ever Told
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How do you develop and maintain remote design standards and guidelines?
There are lots of different kinds of design systems: 1. Brand identities/visual languages 2. Tools 3. Products 4. Process 5. A service 6. A practice Before doing anything else, agree with your entire team which kind(s) of design system you’ll be working on—and which kind(s) you won’t.
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How do you communicate and share the results and learnings of your design experiments with others?
Create a practice of sharing insights that eventually becomes easier to continue than stop. If you wait until you have something good to share, it takes too much willpower to continually remember to evaluate this on-the-fly every time. Instead, pick a day every week or two that you’ll share insights—good, bad, and ugly—with your stakeholders and users. For example: plan to share via email or Slack every Tuesday at 3pm. Set a calendar alert or an alarm. Soon, just like going to the gym every day, it’ll become a practice that’ll be automatic to your muscle memory.
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How do you encourage junior designers to take ownership and initiative in their projects?
Do the first 10% of the work, and then let them finish it. Do the 10% that sets expectations of the kind of work you want and creates an environment where they can succeed. Which 10% you do is important. Don’t do the easiest 10%. That’s abdicating, not helping. Don’t do most difficult 10%. That’s coddling, not helping. Do the 10% that gives them a model of how to do it well and/or what you want, and leave the 90% that they’re now able to because you did that 10% that they wouldn’t have been able to do if you didn’t do that 10%. That’s how you help grow someone who eventually becomes better at your job than you are.
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It's been 80+ hours, 40+ reposts, and, according to LinkedIn stats, 12,000+ people who saw the story about how I was asked to leave…
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This is a vast oversimplification, but I see five key problems in many tech companies currently: Problem #1 — Work Around Work Managers are bumping…
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CodeArea
A Chrome extension that adds a small icon on hover of textareas. It allows you to convert the textarea into a code editor and still submit the same data. Especially helpful for sites like Github.
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