Take some time to reflect on the following three questions about your job: Can someone overseas do it cheaper? Can a computer do it faster? Is what I’m offering in demand in an age of abundance? If you are a designer, this means you should ask: can some automated tools…

Watch out for the Build Trap! What is it? The symptom is simple: doing tons of work but unclear about WHY. The team keeps themselves busy with new requirements. They are clear about how many hours of work were tracked, how many files were created, how many iterations, new releases…

How many words do you have on your slides？ One simple rule to check if your slide is effective is to count how many texts it has and what text size is used. Why? The presentation’s main focus should be on the presenter, not the slides. The slides serve as…

“It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.” — Steven Pressfield What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. That is the keyword the book “The War of Art” wants to address. What resistance is stopping us from? “Any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth”, any…

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to find answers to serious questions in a playful way? If you are frustrated with traditional meetings, how about taking the LEGO bricks out of the kids’ room and trying out LEGO Serious Play? A new way to create and share ideas “What are the challenges in our current team set up?” or, “What…

Keep the previous structure, and I will review with 3 aspects Design projects Internal initiatives Reading & writing Design projects Finished a corporate website redesign, with new information architecture, new branding, new CMS. It took 7 design sprints, from May to Sep. I learned a lot of lessons. Topics like content audit…

I am into topics like conceptual modeling, data visualization and how to extract information to create striking visuals for simple and direct communication. When I bumped into a series of 17century Tibetan medical paintings, the best demonstration of how ancient Tibet people unlocked the power of visual language, it immediately…

A good setup is more than halfway to success — “We want to launch this tool in 2 months as part of the big campaign. Here is the idea. Can the design be done in 2 weeks?” This was the case when the Swiss health insurance company Atupri approached Ginetta with the request for a mental health evaluation tool that…

This blog post summarizes briefly what I learned from the course “Writing for confidence” given by Clare Lynch. For people who are writing: Show up, get stuff written. It will just take years before your ambition & taste matches your actual work. Don’t quit before that. In Design, we talk…