Thought Leadership Internal Design Teams and Thought Leadership explores the challenges in-house design teams face, especially when it comes to thought leadership and “lost potential.” Specifically: …internal design roles are structurally misaligned with public thought leadership. And the career growth options don’t favour the craft side of things: Thought leadership and mastery are correlated. An…
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On Making Choices
How do you justify your choices? There’s always a dilemma: more or less, high or low, depth or breadth, old or new, to be or not to be, stay or go? We always have to choose from a dozen priorities. But know this— Where you start doesn’t matter strategically, while it matters tactically. Where you…
Designerly Thought of the Day #20180809
Although a bit hyped, design systems signals the dawn of automation in design. As principles, best practices, patterns, and libraries stabilize and evolve (far more often than revolutionizing), tactical and functional design tasks will by operated by AI machines (only curated by humans) and become highly automated. Design as a human profession naturally shifts to…
From Visual to Behavior and Beyond
Where do we start to establish a UI pattern library? A visual standard? A UX standard? Start pushing the pixels is a good first step to facilitate discussions. While the challenge is that user experience is more than meets the eye. The more precise we want to be, the more issues we may have to…
Book Preview: Strategic Design Thinking
Strategic Design Thinking: Innovation in Products, Services, Experiences and Beyond by Natalie W. Nixon The Bottom Line Perspectives matter a lot. If you think you know what design thinking is about, read it and think again. Official Summary Who can design? For too long, that question has highlighted the supposed division between right-brain dominant “creative types” and left-brain dominant “analytical types.” Such a division…
