Ryan Rumsey
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"How to be a better design leader" advice was making me worse at my job
I had to stop following popular design leadership advice to actually lead
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Every business rule is made up
All business rules are made up–just like design. Remaking the rules opens the gates to new possibilities.
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15 Better Reasons Why Designers Should Learn Business
Understanding business isn't about advancing your career – it's about knowing when to walk away and having the power to do it.
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How designers can stand out in a crowded job market.
There’s a format of storytelling in business that has been very successful for decision-making. Since hiring is a decision-making meeting, try incorporating the SCR format of storytelling.
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Four categories of business health… and why designers should care about them
To evaluate the overall health of a company, business leaders objectives, measures, and targets are set across four categories of health, with each one focusing on a different aspect of the company.
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The Good Partner Map
Understand when your sales pitch for design is working, when it's not, and what do about it.
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Letting others have your way is a communication superpower for designers
By understanding the wants and needs of those you work with, you can become influential as a designer
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Increase the odds your team can win
Great design leaders are those who intentionally create multiple paths to success.
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The Multi-Mode Advantage: Managing a Range of Partnerships through Positioning
For design leaders, reading the room is everything. While conventional wisdom suggests that positioning drives perception, the reality for design teams is often reversed: your ability to read and respond to shifting stakeholder perceptions should drive your positioning decisions.
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Role-Playing Accelerator: You are the CPO of Figma
Join us for our next Role-Playing Cohort starting January 7, 2025
The Importance of Mapping Power Dynamics
Trying to convert powerful skeptics into design believers takes a lot of emotional energy. There's a more practical, and dare I say it, more strategic way make it worth your while.
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Why Designers might actually like data: A case for gaining statistical literacy (video)
Two particularly powerful tools to validate your design choices and predict your impact are correlation and linear regression analysis.
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Getting unstuck as a design leader–an interview with Carolina Tod
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.
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Imago - a shortcut to make your ideas the obvious choice
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.