Creative Director @HousingOnlineUK designer and front-end developer, master spinner. Also leanda at mastodon dot social
Manchester, England
Joined November 2006
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Picard management tip: Operating a complex system is challenging enough even with trained staff. Don’t fire everyone.
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Right. As a heavy tweeter/content creator who is now maintaining BOTH a Twitter and Mastodon presence, here is a short guide to what I have set up, how to do it and lessons I've learned, for others.
TLDR: It's been WAY less hassle than I expected thanks to tips from followers /1
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while the best designers I know favor teams and industries that fawn over design, the impact of design is most transformative in industries where design is undervalued.
perhaps a key career insight is to find a team that values your superpower in an industry that doesn’t?
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There is a distinction between "websites don't need to look exactly the same across browsers" (or even the mocks) and "doing a poor job translating the design".
Just because pixel-perfection isn't a goal doesn't mean sloppiness is fine.
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Word of the day is Zugzwang [tzoog-tzwung]: a situation in chess (and life) in which a move must be made, but each possible one will make the situation worse.
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Building in thinking time - not doing, not writing, not planning - just thinking through ideas and options feels like slacking when it really shouldn't
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13 Ways To Find Stillness In Your Life:
- Journal
- Take Walks
- Stop Watching the News
- Read Books
- Put Your Phone Away
- Get Rid of Stuff
- Seek Solitude
- Enjoy the Small Pleasures
- Realize You Have Plenty
- Build A Routine
- Pace Yourself
- Sleep
- Zoom Out
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Picard management tip: Take your leisure time seriously. A relaxed captain is a sane captain.
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SOMEONE LEFT A FULL PLATE OF COOKIES. AND A GLASS OF MILK. RIGHT BY THE FIREPLACE FOR ME. I AM NOT KIDDING. WHAT A NIGHT
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Word of the day is to 'noggle' something: 19th-century English dialect meaning to manage something with difficulty/to just about scrape through.
(As in 'I could barely get out of bed this morning, but I noggled it somehow'.)
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Picard management tip: Remember what you liked to play with as a child. Identify the larger, grown-up versions of those toys at work.
