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• Ep 82 Creativity: ’The Future is Creative’ keynote from HOW Design Live 2019

  This episode is a replay of my main stage keynote from HOW Design Live 2019. This talk is a culmination of everything I have seen and learned over the past year and a half working at InVision. It is made up of three truths that I think affect all of us and the six things…

• Ep 81 Creativity: ‘Why innovation is rarely authorized’ panel from HOW Design 2019

  Every company says they want more innovation and leaders who are able to deliver it yet they are often more afraid of extinction than the change that’s necessary. As a result, innovation often happens when teams go against the rules and even risk their jobs to get it done. This episode is a replay of…

• Ep 80 Career: How to find and restore your confidence

  Confidence is something we all seem to be constantly working on since it can be easily faked, lost, or thanks to design imposter syndrome always in short supply. Yet confidence is something that is critical for creativity, leadership, and happiness so we need to understand what undermines it and find new ways of restoring it.…

• Ep 79 Listener questions: Design operations, start-ups, company “purpose", your career and building a team.

  In this episode, we will answer listener questions about clarifying design operations as a discipline, advice for designers who want to run their own start-up, how companies can make their purpose real and not just a marketing-induced pipe dream, dealing with the fear that your best work is behind you, and where to begin to…