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Swishie - Interviews with inspiring women of color who thrive in work and life08: Hannah Martin on transitions, sustainable work, and enjoying the journeyIs it worth it to experience “success” and big shifts if it’s done in a way you don’t enjoy? Hannah explores what their version of success looks like through focusing on how it feels to do the work instead of simply focusing on outcomes. As a first-generation Cuban-American, Hannah found their way to entrepreneurship through resourcefulness and coming from a line of engineers who figured it out. Now, they are reevaluating how to make the journey much more enjoyable, and sustainable. If you’re looking for inspiration on how to enjoy being as much as doing, this episode is...2022-02-1345 min
Life Experience Design (LED) - Apply design thinking to your daily lifeLED #10: Iteration, refine, and redesignIn this episode, we focus on what happens after you deliver. We’ll cover what it means to move from a version 1 to a version 2 in software, and how you can do this in your own life. Through reflecting, evaluating, refining, and redesigning, you’ll be able to navigate the next step, and the next one after that as you live out your ideal life.
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Join us and get...2020-08-0231 minLife Experience Design (LED) - Apply design thinking to your daily lifeLED #9: Execution and making it happenIn this episode, we focus on execution and implementation. Once you’ve launched the first step of your design solution, what’s next? How do you make sure you keep the momentum going? How do you measure and gauge if you’re successful? We explore “life hacks” in getting things done, and how a successful execution feels like.
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Suppor...2020-07-2622 minLife Experience Design (LED) - Apply design thinking to your daily lifeLED #8: The Handoff of project plansIn this episode, we move to the Deliver phase and discuss design briefs and project plans. In our day jobs, the handoff is when different teams align on how to move forward, clarify deadlines and expectations, and so on. In Life Experience Design, you get to wear all the hats! We’ll cover how to pick your design solution (the project you want to move forward with) and how to frame it for success.
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Th...2020-07-1928 minLife Experience Design (LED) - Apply design thinking to your daily lifeLED #7: Design different solutions in your focus areaIn this episode, we wrap up the Design phase by coming up with a few different solutions or projects to tackle in your chosen focus area. We discuss why you want to have a few solutions, things to consider when exploring alternatives, and how to go both broad and deep.
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lifeexperiencedesign/s...2020-07-1226 minLife Experience Design (LED) - Apply design thinking to your daily lifeLED #6: Picking a focus areaIn this episode, we start the Design phase and discuss why focus areas are helpful when approaching your life experience design project. We go over examples of past work projects where focus mattered, chat about our personal focus areas and how they’ve evolved over time, and present an exercise of how to start designing for your own focus areas. We also talk about user journeys and how they help illustrate priorities for an experience.
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...2020-07-0522 minLife Experience Design (LED) - Apply design thinking to your daily lifeLED #5: Create your own mission and vision statementIn this episode, we go deeper in the Define phase, covering vision and mission statements. We go over values and vision statements of some well-known companies, and tie this back why it’s also important to define these in your own life. As with values, having a vision and mission statement will help you gain clarity on how to design for your life. We use values that we came up with in Episode 4 to start framing our own vision and mission statements, and encourage you to do the same.
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Learn ab...2020-06-2826 minLife Experience Design (LED) - Apply design thinking to your daily lifeLED #4: What you stand for and why this mattersIn this episode, we move into the Define phase, which includes defining your values and principles. This helps you stay true to the design you want for your life, especially in those moments where you’re not sure how to move forward. Values help you guide your choices. We cover the heroes exercise and walk you through how you can begin to articulate your values.
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· Anchor: The easiest way to...2020-06-2133 minLife Experience Design (LED) - Apply design thinking to your daily lifeLED #3: Reflect and find the gapIn this episode, we talk about identifying the gap between the current and ideal states of our “product”, in this case our lives. When you’re first trying to figure out what to change in your life, you need to consider scope, reflect on what’s working and what isn’t, and how to prioritize what area changes first. We talk about reflecting using the rose, thorn, and bud framework. We also cover Discover phase exercises including empathy mapping, four quadrants, and timeline mapping.
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Learn about upco...2020-06-1430 minLife Experience Design (LED) - Apply design thinking to your daily lifeLED #2: Dream about your ideal lifeIn this episode, we talk about how to find inspiration for making a change. We go over examples on how we’ve used design to improve on and innovate with new digital products and found inspiration to do the same in our lives by staying curious. As part of the Discover phase, we also talk about exercises you can try to discover your ideal life including competitive analysis, persona development, and ideal day roadmaps.
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Join us an...2020-06-0723 minLife Experience Design (LED) - Apply design thinking to your daily lifeLED #1: Discover where you are right nowIn this first episode, we talk about how we each came to the realization of designing our own lives! Learn about how we apply design processes and tools as product designers into life planning to achieve our goals. We also walk through how you can take an audit of your life with a mind-mapping exercise and our own personal examples and insights.
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