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Investigating design

Adopt a detective's perspective to unravel the complexities of your design challenge

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Reactive vs Proactive work

Balance is essential. You don’t need to control everything, but you do want control over some aspects of what you do. Doing proactive work can help you achieve this balance.

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My books of 2023

Change is the one constant in life; it’s also the key theme in some of my favorite books from this year.

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Give as few orders as possible

The subtle skill of helping people level up the skills they already have without micro-managing the process.

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Tomorrow is another world

Design is a process, not an outcome. You always get to try again tomorrow.

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Feeding my subconscious

You may not be in control of what your subconscious does. But you are in control of what you feed your subconscious.

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Think like a designer

Explore the problem, and the solutions will become apparent.

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The small things in life

An article all about my experience of visiting Denmark and its remarkable use of design to affect culture.

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Are you directing or acting?

We all have a role in the creative process, and knowing which role you are playing is essential to allowing creativity to move beyond a single imagination.

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Efficiency is overrated

A new series on how slowing down supports creativity, quality, and joy.

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Designing the inevitable sequence

Good design is often a matter of sequencing experiences to result in an inevitably great outcome. Arrangement not reinvention can lead to the most satisfying of experiences.

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A better way to write comments

Commenting tools are helpful for collaboration, but we must make sure we control our tools rather than them controlling us.

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Practice makes satisfaction

A practice is not a singular act; it requires help and challenges.

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2023 the year of running

What if there was another way to start running that didn’t leave you sweating profusely and gasping for breath?

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Just do it.

Leave the chief critic in your head behind to start the work of bringing your idea to life

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Game Over

Exploring the idea that leadership is not about having all the answers, but instead, it’s about setting up a “rich interpretable space” that gives people the support and tools they need to lead from the bottom up