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Todd Henry: Developing a Daily Creative practice – Idea to Value Podcast S7E163

Idea to Value

00:10:00 – The book is designed to help people develop the process and cadence of creativity instead of just getting by on skill. But there are also some very practical tactical entries that are designed to help you spark an idea. Topics covered in the episode: 00:01:30 – What the Daily Creative is about.

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Rethinking Meetings and Conference: Don’t Automate, Innovate

Stephen Shapiro

Back then, companies would use software to automate bad processes, speeding up bad results. This is the modern-day version of automating bad processes. In fact, I would argue that many of our face-to-face meetings were poorly designed to begin with. The conference industry is based around events.

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Building the In-house Design Agency

Boxes and Arrows

The first article discussed the pros and cons of different UX team structures. For companies that depend on user experience for business success, a strong internal team is essential. The hardest part of building an in-house design agency is answering the basic “Why?”. Once you have a shared vision, it is on to executing design.

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Unleash Your Visual Superpower!

Boxes and Arrows

From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Does a designer just make pictures?

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Creating the Persuasive Pattern card deck

Boxes and Arrows

One of our finest tasks as designers is to filter the abundance of choice into easily digestible bits. This requires an endeavor into product psychology and the art of designing with purpose and intent. Stakeholders in design. All design has at least two stakeholders. Otherwise it is not design, but art.

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An Open Letter to Project Managers

Boxes and Arrows

Dear Project Managers, It has been a very enjoyable experience working with everyone over the last couple of months and sharing our ideas on UX design. User-centric design principles, however, do not replace the fact-finding mission we all need to take as UX designers; they merely serve as a starting point for making design decisions.

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Soldiers & Hessians, Ronin & Ninja

Boxes and Arrows

Having worked as a consultant, at an agency and in-house, I’ve observed that the organizational location and economics of the user experience team can make or break them. When should you bring in an outside team, and when should you hire an individual employee? How to figure out the right team for a new project?