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Don’t Go Through It — Grow Through It

| By brianditopriambodo on April 28, 2021

{ 🌱 } – Most of the Time, You Have to Pick Yourself Up Life is full of ups and downs. The moment you step out of your parents’ house, you’ll realise that the world is not so kind. Sometimes it’s because we lack skills or talent; other times, it’s the timing or situation. This […]

From Ideas to Sentences: How to Speak What is on Your Mind

| By brianditopriambodo on January 27, 2021

{ 🗣️ } – Make a Point Without Embarrassing Yourself Have you ever been in a conversation where you have an idea, but you just couldn’t find the right things to say? You started to blabber and stutter because it just doesn’t sound right, you know something is off. You ended up embarrassing yourself and failed […]

Giving Life to Your Product Ideas

| By eugenesanu on December 1, 2020

{ 💡 } –How to Avoid Making Common Mistakes Once I read an interview with Ryan Singer, the Head of Strategy at Basecamp, and the interviewer asked: “How can you get to a stage where things are just running smoothly? Where do people go wrong?”. To which he said that — people struggle with getting started […]

How to Stop Overthinking (and Start Doing Something Instead)

| By brianditopriambodo on November 11, 2020

{ 🤔 } – It’s All in Your Mind Recently, someone asked me about the best advice or feedback that I have ever received. It did not take me a long time to find an answer to that question. At some point in my career, I used to worry too much and often found myself wavering between […]

Digitally Transformed: A Relearning Organization

| By linusohman on September 23, 2020

{ 🏢 } – Digital Transformation From the Ground Up This is an attempt to explain digital transformation from the ground up using zero bullsh*t. to pull this off, we need to start with why businesses exist. If we boil things down to the simplest (first) principles we can say that an organization is: taking […]

5 Soft Skills Every Product Designer Should Master

| By eugenesanu on September 23, 2020

{ 💬 } – Why Confidence, Discipline, and Good Communication Are Essential I once asked a friend that works for a big name design company what he looks for in potential hires? He said that he hires people with great communication skills and who trust in their process over designers with a stand-out portfolio. He […]

Designer Life in Lockdown

| By olhabahaieva on September 2, 2020

{ 👩‍💻 } – Working from Home: The New Normal for Designers Worldwide I’ve been working as a remote designer for over seven years. But a lot of designers started their remote journey only this year. A lot of my creative friends have been working remotely for 6–8 months. They experience everything that I went […]

How To Influence Micromanagers So You Can Achieve Better Results

| By brianditopriambodo on August 12, 2020

{ 👨‍💼 } – They want to feel important, so make them feel important If you have been working for at least a year or two, chances are you have already met people who micromanage. These are the kind of person who, instead of giving guidance and advice, they give orders and dominate your work. […]

How to Conduct the Best User Interviews? Don’t Interview

| By dan_nessler on August 12, 2020

{ 💬 } – Have conversations with them, instead have conducted and attended countless user interviews in my current job at Hinderling Volkart and before that. At some point, I noticed a thing that goes wrong a lot of times but more about that later. Last year I bumped into Swiss documentary filmmaker Paul Riniker (Bio on […]

3 Hours is All You Need to Achieve Success

| By brianditopriambodo on June 10, 2020

{ ⏰ } – To control your day, you need to know how to maximize your time If you have goals or dreams, you may have thought about when will they come true? The truth is, you are the one who decides when to make it a reality by making full use of your time, instead of […]

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