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Shaping Designers and Design teams
A series about helping the diverse world of designers and design teams to self-reflect, direct their future and develop others.
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End of series summary
End of series summary
An end of series post about my writing on Shaping Design
Jason Mesut
Dec 24, 2018
Competency model
Competency model
Everyone seems to want a ladder, maybe they need a net
Jason Mesut
Dec 23, 2018
Primary vs Secondary practices
Primary vs Secondary practices
Coping with the ever increasing set of competencies within User Experience and Digital Design
Jason Mesut
Dec 22, 2018
Five ways of wellbeing
Five ways of wellbeing
How to make yourself and your team feel better through self-reflection, connection, learning and giving.
Jason Mesut
Dec 22, 2018
Team Development Cards
Team Development Cards
A great way to capture development needs and mentoring potential within a design team
Jason Mesut
Dec 20, 2018
Skittle mapping
Skittle mapping
A fun and useful exercise for mapping yourself and focusing your future in your own way
Jason Mesut
Dec 19, 2018
Make your own leaving card
Make your own leaving card
A powerful backcasting technique for directing your future
Jason Mesut
Dec 18, 2018
Foundational skills
Foundational skills
Remember to exercise the core muscles that drive design progression
Jason Mesut
Dec 17, 2018
Disciplines of DesignOps
Disciplines of DesignOps
Mapping the different disciplines fo design operators
Jason Mesut
Dec 16, 2018
Framing DesignOps or design leadership focus
Framing DesignOps or design leadership focus
Reflecting on where you focus your efforts as a design operator or leader
Jason Mesut
Dec 15, 2018
Design Leadership mapping
Design Leadership mapping
Understanding where you are investing your leadership energy and where your team should
Jason Mesut
Dec 14, 2018
Classifying design value
Classifying design value
Using frameworks to better clarify design’s value in your organisation
Jason Mesut
Dec 13, 2018
Directing design value by stakeholder
Directing design value by stakeholder
Understanding who you focus design value on
Jason Mesut
Dec 12, 2018
Diamond Valuations
Diamond Valuations
Using the Double Diamond to map and focus your team’s and your own design value
Jason Mesut
Dec 11, 2018
Values prioritisation
Values prioritisation
A simple method of understanding your design team’s stance within an organisation
Jason Mesut
Dec 10, 2018
The dilemma of designers’ empathy delusions
The dilemma of designers’ empathy delusions
Taking a bit of a reality check on how empathic you really are and for whom can help make you a more effective designer, not just an…
Jason Mesut
Dec 9, 2018
Soft shaping and the Perfect Experience Architect
Soft shaping and the Perfect Experience Architect
Map the qualities, competencies and attributes that really matter to your work
Jason Mesut
Dec 7, 2018
Tools and techniques mapping
Tools and techniques mapping
Understanding how you spend your work time
Jason Mesut
Dec 6, 2018
False dichotomy mapping
False dichotomy mapping
The weirdest but most intriguing of profiling tools
Jason Mesut
Dec 5, 2018
The UX Spectrum
The UX Spectrum
A neat little interactive visual framework for profiling designers against key UX practice areas
Jason Mesut
Dec 4, 2018
Blob mapping
Blob mapping
Map your practice competency in a few minutes
Jason Mesut
Dec 3, 2018
Map your Career Timeline
Map your Career Timeline
Part two of the ‘Shaping Design and Designers’ Series
Jason Mesut
Dec 2, 2018
Shaping Design and Designers: Intro
Shaping Design and Designers: Intro
An intro to the diversity of design diversity
Jason Mesut
Dec 1, 2018
Qualities of a modern designer
Qualities of a modern designer
An update to an article from earlier in the year around the desired qualities of a modern day designer
Jason Mesut
May 29, 2018
Boiling the ocean of expected UX / Design capabilities
Boiling the ocean of expected UX / Design capabilities
Yesterday I published a tweet and video of a list I had started on twitter.
Jason Mesut
May 15, 2018
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