Hustle: Not Just Advertising, Building

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07/15/16 • 34 min

Rick & Anthony discuss a recent article entitled State of the Digital Nation 2016 by Jules Ehrhardt.
http://blog.marvelapp.com/state-of-the-digital-nation-2016/

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Rick & Anthony discuss a recent article entitled State of the Digital Nation 2016 by Jules Ehrhardt.
http://blog.marvelapp.com/state-of-the-digital-nation-2016/

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Hustle: Empathetic Project Management (feat. Rachel Gertz)

Rachel Gertz, Partner, Systems Consultant & Trainer at Louder than ten discusses some philosophies around project management. And roles and disciplines as teams grow and projects evolve over time.

Discussion points

Emotional intelligence: empathy is taught.
Be a champion for your team, they are dealing with a lot
Should designers PM? Designers need to have empathy too
When building teams hire less for fit, and more for the ability to make decisions based on business goals.
PM's role needs to be unique because they need to be held accountable for project success/failure. Strategy focus
Creative has the load of creativity, is it fair to have the role of asking the hard questions like scope, goals, body language.

Links

Soap conference (Travis speaks about Design Machines)
Collaboration workshop - http://soapconf.com/edu-summit/ (workshop with Travis and Rachel)
Design & content conference, Vancouver
Fall workshop in Calgary, Canada TBA
Article by Mike Davidson, former Design Director at Twitter

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Hustle: Design for the Mind (feat. Victor Yocco)

Victor is a user experience (UX) researcher with a passion for representing the voice of the end user in product design decisions. He writes and speaks on the application of psychology to design. He's written for A List Apart, Smashing Magazine, UX Booth, User Experience Magazine, and more.

He's the author Design for the Mind, a book from Manning Publications on the application of principles of psychology to design.

about the book:
Design for the Mind: includes 7 Psychological Principles of Persuasive Design teaches you to recognize how websites and applications can benefit from an awareness of our innate, natural responses as humans, and how to apply the principles to your own designs.

listener discount:
bit.ly/yocco1
https://www.manning.com

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