People Aren’t Things
If you’re treating your team like Jira tickets with legs, you’re doing leadership wrong. This article (with a little help from Terry Pratchett, Mike Monteiro, Amy Santee, and Vivianne Castillo) is your loud, loving reminder: people aren’t things—and if you forget that, you’re the problem.
You are not your direct reports
Work in UX for longer than a minute, and you’ll hear “You are not your User”. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen or worked with a UXer who doesn’t hold this as the First Commandment of User Experience. As a manager, are you remembering that with your direct reports?
Design Thinking at Work – DX20 Innovation Lab
There are a few occasions that I’ve had the opportunity to truly create something with a group of amazing people who believed by bringing together a cross-discipline team we could build something that would solve our customers’ problems as a balanced team.
Building an In-House Design System
Taking a grassroots Design System from a simple pattern library to a fully functional design system to help our product teams and tie together disparate products to brand cohesiveness.