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See You at the Office?

Senior in-house design leaders consider the pitfalls of managing hybrid teams — and ask hard questions about what an office is actually for

11 min readAug 7, 2023

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See You at the Office?

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Patrick Sharbaugh
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UX Collective

Is your organization solving the real problem?

Leverage strategic design to understand deeper customer needs and assure you’re building the right solution, not just building the…

10 min readMay 1, 2024

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A confident strategic designer wearing a hat that says “stakeholder whisperer,” surrounded by several other hats labeled, “business strategist,” “ethnographer,” storyteller,” “facilitator,” “silo-buster,” “visualizer,” and “systems thinker.”

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Patrick Sharbaugh

23 Degrees of Separation

At the winter solstice, the shallowness of consumer-culture ‘happiness’ pales next to the awe and wonder of deep time

2 min readDec 28, 2023

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23 Degrees of Separation

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Patrick Sharbaugh

Together at Last

Return-to-office mandates are deeply unpopular, in part because by themselves they don’t solve any obvious problems. Here’s how to do it…

13 min readSep 16, 2023

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Together at Last

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Patrick Sharbaugh

See You at the Office? Part 2

Senior design leaders share their thoughts on how to mitigate the downsides of remote work and make the most of hybrid.

6 min readAug 7, 2023

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See You at the Office? Part 2

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Patrick Sharbaugh

Poop Scoop

Two online media scandals reveal ugly truths about “citizen journalism” in Singapore

10 min readJun 3, 2014

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Poop Scoop

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Patrick Sharbaugh

A Dance With Dragons

Vietnam has had a difficult week with anti-China protests, but the most significant one may be happening on its social networks

8 min readMay 16, 2014

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A Dance With Dragons

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Patrick Sharbaugh

Rumor Has It

Last week’s backlash against “idle Internet speculation” is a window into East-West cultural differences

6 min readMar 20, 2014

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Rumor Has It

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Patrick Sharbaugh
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I. M. H. O.

Make Lulz, Not War

Will meme culture help transform Asia’s authoritarian states on human rights from within?

9 min readNov 25, 2013

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Make Lulz, Not War

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Patrick Sharbaugh

Patrick Sharbaugh

International design strategist and educator, avid storyteller, former journalist and ethnographic researcher writing from my lair in Portland, Oregon.

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