Someone really needs to design a new hug emoji. The “hands emerging from the neck” and the “silhouette of people hugging that looks like an old movie camera” ones are awful.
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Your time is the fossil fuels of your life.
You don't know how much is left and it's never coming back.
Does the place you work for (or are apply to work at) deserve it?
First coaching reflections video of 2025: https://youtu.be/y4ThCez0RPY?si=ltKRnJApj7klKd0d
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🎂 👹 🐠
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Excellent paper title (unfortunately not open access): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15554120241306796
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Every year I remember how sinister the lyrics to Santa Claus is Coming to Town are.
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When we using indirect, hedging language and people please, we can actually end up being selfish by accident, because we're asking them to do the emotional lifting to decipher our request.
The topic of this week's Coaching Reflections video is learning to ask for what you want: https://youtu.be/UTJaQw6Gw10
What are your tips for being candid without being abrasive?
[#]Coaching #DesignLeadership #Adulting
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When you’re the DM and it wrecks your Spotify Wrapped data 🤣
[#]dnd #tttpg
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Just remembered that Black Friday is also e-mail marketing unsubscribe season.
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Started sketching in meetings again. Sometimes the tiny ones work out great, a couple of them I just get the proportions all wrong.
[#]sketch #sketching
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The latest episode of Power of Ten is out with my guest Marzia Aricò.
We talked about her journey to where she is now, service design and organisational change, the importance of diversity within organisations and how her guests on Design Voices Elevated have navigated their own journeys. And we talk about her new book in graphic novel format called Design Leadership Chronicles.
https://www.polaine.com/power-of-ten/marzia-aricò-design-leadership-maverick/
[#]podcast #PowerOfTen #DesignLeadership
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Is #design better suited to a wise guide rather than hero role in the organisation?
That's the topic of this week's coaching reflections video. What's your take on it?
https://www.polaine.com/2024/11/design-as-wise-guide-versus-hero/
[#]coaching #leadership #DesignLeadership #storytelling
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Watching a guy using a leaf blower on the windiest day. #pointless
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How it started and how it’s going.
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The juxtaposition of this magazine cover and the packaging next to it…
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Using a few different platforms recently, I swear contemporary product teams have never heard of information architecture. Such a mess of features and “spaces” glommed together. No overarching plan or taxonomy.
Where are they all hiding @jarango? #ia #product
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Although it's important to strive for impact on a societal and planetary level, sometimes our biggest impact is on those immediately around us and we can easily forget how powerful the ripple effect of that is.
A lovely message from a ex-student who I taught 20 years ago really brought this home to me last week and is the topic of my latest Coaching Reflections video:
https://youtu.be/3F3gWekso7o
[#]coaching #leadership #designleadership #impact
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Ugh. I feel sick.
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Wow. I never use Google Slides but just had to for something. It's almost as shit at PowerPoint.
It amazes me that these companies with so much talent and money are unable to produce any apps with decent #UX.
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What is the real work at work?
I have very few coaching sessions about the actual design work. It’s all about people. That's the subject of this week's Coaching Reflections:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnHxdWFS5k0
[#]coaching #reflection #softskills
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I can’t not see piles of sticky notes in the picture of this article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/18/china-economy-slow-growth-yuan?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(Alt text: it’s an aerial photo of hundreds of colourful shipping containers on a dock in China)
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