
Now, I had a big office, a nice salary, and a sinking realization that I felt dead inside. But I’ve never been very good with admitting that I might have made a wrong turn somewhere along the way. Instead, I find, it’s better to double down on bad decisions to make it really impossible to ever leave them behind.
… from other talented creatives, push boundaries and practice our skill. However the reality is that Design Thinking has encouraged the democratization of design where a solo creative is often mixed in with employees and clients that have very little experience with design in a fast-paced and multi-tasking environment. We are creating environments that deteriorates a creative’s skills when we should be enhancing the practice of critical problem solving, combined with imagination and elegant execution through design, implementation and testing. Our expectations should be pushed to want more, however we often settle at “this is good enough”.
…se you have to now design how people feel during the project. Someone much wiser than me once said, “You are responsible for the words you say, but you should also take responsibility for what people hear.” This is a fundamentally different way to do design work and directly stems from that shift mentione…