Category: Career and Growth
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The Six-Month Audit: How to Reset Your Goals, Protect Your Mental Health and Own the Rest of the Year
There is a distinct difference between the version of the year we map out in our heads and the version we actually live through. If the last six months have taught us anything, it’s that life doesn’t care about our carefully structured timelines. We’ve reached the halfway mark of the…
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The Creative’s Compass: Project Management as an Individual Contributor
As creatives, we often view the design process as a space for exploration, experimentation and discovery; however, reality checks in quick when deadlines loom and the monster of “scope creep” shows its teeth. To survive the trenches, we have to look at project management from a new perspective. How do…
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The Emotional Labor of Design
Ask a stranger what a graphic designer does, and they’ll mention logos, colors or “making things look pretty.” Ask a designer, and they’ll tell you about the physical knot in their stomach right before they hit ‘Share Screen.’ We’re taught to master the grid, the Bézier curve and the Adobe…