Things that might be missing from your job description
Things your design manager expects from you, but won’t say out loud.
“Things that might be missing from your job description” is published by Fabricio Teixeira in UX Collective — Read on uxdesign.cc/things-that-are-missing-from-your-job-description-29871d9e8d8b
I totally agree with at least 40 of these things. This is a great list.
Our Obsession With Staring at a Screen
A recent post on Medium, How to Configure Your iPhone to Work for You, Not Against You, drew my attention to removing distractions from my day to support the things I am working to achieve. In a similar vein, a new light sculpture by Design Bridge and Gali May Lucas highlights the obsession that some of us have with staring at a screen.You can see more photos and detail at Design you Trust.
Where’s your cohort?
One of the talented designers I have worked with once described himself as someone who likes to colour things in. He then described me as someone who likes to manage people who like to colour things in, which just between you and me, I love this description.
The people who get you. The ones who have been through it with you. Who see you. Our life is a series of cohorts, and the special ones connect with us deeply. They raise the bar and they provide a foundation for what’s next. These are the source of our best memories, the moments where we moved forward and felt the chance to make a difference.
Source: Where’s your cohort?
I think it's time that I got back to my cohort of talented people who like to colour things in. Where do you need to be and who do you need to be with in the times ahead? It’s probably time to make a move now.
Does it have heart?
I like the simplicity of this creative workflow. It's something that too often gets lost or left behind. Proposed creative workflow.
Perspective
Quotes I Like:
“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.”
Chase Perfection
Quotes I Like
“Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.”
Urgent versus important
You know you should be focusing on the long-term journey, on building out the facility, signing up new customers or finishing your dissertation. But instead... (Seth Godin)
One approach that has worked for me when surrounded by urgent work is to block out some time, in the midst of urgent work, for contact and work with the important projects to keep the connection alive The why of urgent vs important
You know you should be focusing on the long-term journey, on building out the facility, signing up new customers or finishing your dissertation.
But instead...
Liberal
Great comment by Jonathan Freedland.
"So enough of this fraudulent talk of elites, metropolitan or otherwise. But what of that middle word, the meat in this rhetorical sandwich? What of “liberal”?After this year, especially, I think the word should be worn with pride. If liberal means wanting to help children fleeing a dictator’s barrel-bombs, then call me a liberal. If liberal means believing that the peoples of a continent that for centuries was torn apart by war and bloodshed have found a new, peaceful mechanism for resolving their differences, and that Britain should play its part in that, then call me a liberal.If liberal means holding true to the values of the Enlightenment, including a belief in facts and evidence and reason, then call me a liberal. And if liberal means cherishing the norms and institutions that protect and sustain democracy, from a free press to an independent judiciary, then call me a liberal. For those values are under assault just now, in a way few of us ever imagined."
Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian, 24 December 2016I am proud to be a Liberal.
Great work
Once again one of my heroes lays it all out, very straightforward, in 228 words.