Shaping Designers and Design teams

Everyone seems to want a ladder, maybe they need a net

Coping with the ever increasing set of competencies within User Experience and Digital Design

How to make yourself and your team feel better through self-reflection, connection, learning and giving.

A great way to capture development needs and mentoring potential within a design team

A fun and useful exercise for mapping yourself and focusing your future in your own way

A powerful backcasting technique for directing your future

Remember to exercise the core muscles that drive design progression

Mapping the different disciplines fo design operators

Reflecting on where you focus your efforts as a design operator or leader

Understanding where you are investing your leadership energy and where your team should

Using frameworks to better clarify design’s value in your organisation

Understanding who you focus design value on

Using the Double Diamond to map and focus your team’s and your own design value

A simple method of understanding your design team’s stance within an organisation

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…

Map the qualities, competencies and attributes that really matter to your work

Understanding how you spend your work time

The weirdest but most intriguing of profiling tools

A neat little interactive visual framework for profiling designers against key UX practice areas

Map your practice competency in a few minutes

Part two of the ‘Shaping Design and Designers’ Series

An intro to the diversity of design diversity

An update to an article from earlier in the year around the desired qualities of a modern day designer

Yesterday I published a tweet and video of a list I had started on twitter.