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Forget the steps. Follow the signals.
Don’t trust THE design process. Design your design work
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Thomas Budiman
Core design abilities that AI can’t replace (at least for now)
Future-proofing your design career: what AI can’t replace
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I don’t know, but I’ll figure it out
A mindset for navigating ambiguous situations
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Sometimes learning starts from when we make room for new information
Challenging old habits and beliefs, letting them go, and adopting new knowledge.
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Connecting the dots: Steve Jobs’ timeless wisdom for designers
How this mindset changed the way I work with others
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Feedback may not be the most effective approach
Instead do this thing.
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You can’t control, but at least, you can influence
Even the tiniest pebble can create ripples that resonate across the vastness of the pond.
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To learn is to design
Make something awful at first, reflect, fix it, make something less awful, and repeat.
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Learning while working
When having dedicated time for improvement is impossible, how can we continuously improve?
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Understanding problems. It's just hard.
#25: The problem-solving lesson we can learn from one of the greatest outbreaks in history.
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Feeling indecisive can be a good thing
It's a sign of more thoughtful and well-rounded designs.
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Impostor syndrome
Detrimental or motivating?
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