Please, please, pretty please stop saying ‘wheelchair bound’ or ‘confined to a wheelchair’.
I am not chained to my wheelchair. I can sit in other seats.
My wheelchair is freedom.
Pass it on.
This post is fantastic. Mia Blume wrote it as advice for design leaders, but it's great stuff for anyone who works in an office environment.
"Design, or be designed." medium.com/@mialoira/desi…
via Daniel Burka
If designers insist on talking about the form things take without an understanding of the larger business challenges, then they will forever be relegated to talking about the superficial. Just remember, a logo is not a brand. Now, can we get back to work?
“The product’s design was excellent, but the product was buggy, so I couldn’t recommend it.”
This is used as an excuse for why design-led orgs don’t work.
Yet, that’s the heart of issue. A truly design-led org would focus on the user’s experience. Bugs are part of that.
💡 If you’re creating educational content for your audience, decide if it is A: reference (docs) B: tutorials (examples) C: training (practise using a fictional challenge or situation). They are all different in purpose and success measures and should be kept separate #education
an interviewer once said they didn't have slack or their work email on their phone because "there's no such thing as a design emergency" and that's the exact moment when i deleted slack and email from my phone