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In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of daily life and forget to take care of ourselves. However, self-care is essential for maintaining a healthy mind, body, and spirit. One way to practice self-care is through mindfulness, which involves being fully present in the moment and aware of your thoughts and feelings without judgment. Mindfulness can help reduce stress, improve focus and concentration, and enhance overall well-being. Here are some tips for incorporating mindfulness into your daily routine: 1. […]

Staying motivated can be a challenge, especially for entrepreneurs who are constantly facing obstacles and setbacks. However, successful entrepreneurs have developed strategies to keep themselves motivated and focused on their goals. Here are some tips from successful entrepreneurs on how to stay motivated: 1. Set clear goals: Having clear and specific goals can help you stay motivated and focused. Successful entrepreneurs often set both short-term and long-term goals that are achievable and measurable. This gives them a sense of direction and purpose, which can help them stay […]

Effective communication is essential in all aspects of life, whether it be in the workplace, in relationships, or in social situations. In order to communicate successfully, it is important to understand the do’s and don’ts of effective communication. By following these tips, you can improve your communication skills and achieve better outcomes in your interactions with others. The Do’s of Effective Communication: 1. Listen actively: Listening is a crucial part of effective communication. Make sure to give the speaker your full attention, avoid interrupting, and ask clarifying […]

Feedback, in whichever form it takes, and whatever it may be called, is one of the most effective soft skills that we have at our disposal to collaboratively get our designs to a better place while growing our own skills and perspectives. Feedback is also one of the most underestimated tools, and often by assuming that we’re already good at it, we settle, forgetting that it’s a skill that can be trained, grown, and improved. Poor feedback can create confusion in projects, bring down morale, and affect […]

“Any comment?” is probably one of the worst ways to ask for feedback. It’s vague and open ended, and it doesn’t provide any indication of what we’re looking for. Getting good feedback starts earlier than we might expect: it starts with the request.  It might seem counterintuitive to start the process of receiving feedback with a question, but that makes sense if we realize that getting feedback can be thought of as a form of design research. In the same way that we wouldn’t do any research […]

I’m not sure when I first heard this quote, but it’s something that has stayed with me over the years. How do you create services for situations you can’t imagine? Or design products that work on devices yet to be invented? Flash, Photoshop, and responsive design When I first started designing websites, my go-to software was Photoshop. I created a 960px canvas and set about creating a layout that I would later drop content in. The development phase was about attaining pixel-perfect accuracy using fixed widths, fixed […]

We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply to check in on one another, people have yammered away, chattering and gesticulating, through spoken conversation for countless generations. Only in the last few millennia have we begun to commit our conversations to writing, and only in the last few decades have we begun to outsource them to the computer, a machine that shows much more affinity for written correspondence than for the slangy vagaries of spoken language. Computers have trouble […]

In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible to run a mile in less than four minutes. Runners had been attempting it since the late 19th century and were beginning to draw the conclusion that the human body simply wasn’t built for the task.  But on May 6, 1956, Roger Bannister took everyone by surprise. It was a cold, wet day in Oxford, England—conditions no one expected to lend themselves to record-setting—and yet Bannister did just that, running a […]

Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases, assumptions, and inattention toward marginalized and vulnerable groups lead to dangerous and unethical tech—but what, specifically, do we need to do to fix it? The intention to make our tech safer is not enough; we need a strategy. This chapter will equip you with that plan of action. It covers how to integrate safety principles into your design work in order to create tech that’s safe, how to convince your stakeholders […]

Do you remember when having a great website was enough? Now, people are getting answers from Siri, Google search snippets, and mobile apps, not just our websites. Forward-thinking organizations have adopted an omnichannel content strategy, whose mission is to reach audiences across multiple digital channels and platforms. But how do you set up a content management system (CMS) to reach your audience now and in the future? I learned the hard way that creating a content model—a definition of content types, attributes, and relationships that let people […]