Instead of thinking about partnerships as a separation of skills and responsibilities, think about them in a similar way that customers adopt new products and services. Some partners are early adopters, while there are others who adopt late – often begrudgingly.
There are limited returns when spending a significant amount of emotional energy trying to convert powerful skeptics into believers. There's a more practical, and dare I say it, more strategic way to deal with skeptics.
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Carolina Tod is a Brazilian & afro-indigenous designer based in São Paulo. She's a partner and independent publisher at Produtos para Humanos, and Design Manager at Fintech Magalu.
Generally speaking, Empathy Maps are helpful to understand additional perspectives, but for many of us, it is difficult to be empathetic in the moment. Especially when we disagree with someone.
A simple matrix-like tool to simultaneously focus on eliminating and reducing the activities that aren’t producing the results you need so that you can raise and create the activities that are or will.
Strategy Maps are powerful tools that can help bridge this gap by visualizing the relationships between different business goals and the role of design in achieving them.
Many designers aspire to transition from individual contributors to design leaders. This shift comes with its own set of challenges and responsibilities.