Ryan Rumsey
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Webinar: How Amy Sheppard unlocks collective innovation across teams
Methods and rituals to unlock new depths of creativity and innovation
PLAY: Rapidly Figure Out Design Team Priorities
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: Connecting Design to Business Objectives
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.
3 Key Responsibilities When Transitioning into Design Leadership
Many designers aspire to transition from individual contributors to design leaders. This shift comes with its own set of challenges and responsibilities.
You're now in charge. What's the plan?
Four key elements to develop a comprehensive, winning plan to lead a design team.
Change your inner narrative with neuroscience and post-its
Use neuroscience (and post-its) to hack your brain from negative thought loops
Design is biased. And, your execs know it.
It's critical to find data, leverage it, and examine your own bias. Doing so means you'll be a better advocate for the value of design because I could anticipate how executives might react when I presented data like this.
5 steps the most effective designers I know overcome self-doubt
Effective transformation from designer to design leader starts and ends with nuance. The most effective designers I know leverage nuance to overcome self-doubt in five steps.