#026 - To wrap up the year, I had a candid chat with 3 friends who are all design leaders and creatives. Egle is a designer, researcher and lifestyle photographer who leads design teams for a global corporation. Rafa is a Design Director, Product Design Consultant, and Visiting Lecturer at The Bartlett (UCL) and London College of Communication (UAL). Sinem is a Principal UX Designer and Design Lecturer. We talked about how the year 2022 was for each one of them and their biggest challenges, learnings and advice for designers.
In this episode:
- Active listening and trusting people first before trying to solve problems with design
- Importance of alignment, trust and connection
- Letting go of methodologies and building your agility in a cross-functional team
- Not trying to control all the outcomes
- Thinking about the long-term impact on product and people
- Being comfortable with uncomfortable feelings and uncomfortable situations
Shownotes
Happy Startup School
https://www.thehappystartupschool.com/
Brene Brown
Amy Edmondson
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
https://eastermichael.com/book/
The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo
https://juliezhuo.com/book/manager.html
Design, When Everybody Designs by Ezio Manzini
https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4460/Design-When-Everybody-DesignsAn-Introduction-to
Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan
Four Thousand Weeks
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56155228-four-thousand-weeks
F*ck It by John C. Parkin
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4837266-f-k-it
Egle Beliunaite
https://www.linkedin.com/in/egle-beliunaite/
Rafa Prada
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafaprada/
Sinem Erdemli
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sinemerdemli/
Show credits
Illustrations by Isa Vicente
https://www.instagram.com/isadezgz/
Music by Brad Porter
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12/22/22 • 53 min
Design Feeling - Candid end of year reflections with three design leaders
Transcript
Introduction
[00:00:00] Nirish Shakya: hey, how's it going? This is the penultimate episode of Season two of the Design Feeling Podcast. And this time I've invited three good friends of mine to the show. They're all design leaders and talented creatives and people who at the top of their game, Is a designer and researcher who leads design teams in a global corporation. She's also a lifestyle photographer as well. Rafa Prada is a design director, product design consult
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