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Now’s the Time to Embrace Your Inner Renaissancer

More than ever, our world needs people with varied interests and skills. — We’ve gone by many names over the centuries: Renaissance person. Polymath. Jack- or Jill-of-all-trades. Generalist. Career slasher. Multipotentialite. Hybrid. T-shaped person. Unicorn. Cross-disciplinary, multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary. In more recent decades, we’ve also caught a lot of shade, about how we’re amateurs, noncommittal wanderers, deviants. …

Hybrid

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Now’s the Time to Embrace Your Inner Renaissancer
Now’s the Time to Embrace Your Inner Renaissancer
Hybrid

13 min read


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Nightingale

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Ten Ways Cognitive Biases Impact Data Design Work

These known biases are especially relevant in data visualization, and staying alert to them can help us avoid harmful designs — Our lives are plagued by uncertainty. We rely on design to navigate the twists and turns. When designs incorporate data, they can illuminate knowledge we may need.

Psychology

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Ten Ways Cognitive Biases Impact Data Design Work
Ten Ways Cognitive Biases Impact Data Design Work
Psychology

10 min read


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UX Collective

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Practical tips for creating equitable designs

How, exactly, designers can make big culture shifts possible. — A wise teacher once told me Black Lives Matter is not a “movement” (nor is Me Too or any other for that matter) as that implies it is something that will come and go with time, that what it really represents is a sea change, a significant cultural shift. Too…

Social Justice

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Practical tips for creating equitable designs
Practical tips for creating equitable designs
Social Justice

11 min read


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An Injustice!

·Jul 27, 2022

Before Patriarchy Can, Paternalism Must Fall

With the world in great flux, we need to learn how to better look to ourselves and one another — More and more, we all seem to be swimming in a vast sea of unknowns. It can be hard to know where to turn. What if you could turn to someone who’s always there? Yourself. Easier said than done, right? That’s not because you’re not a smart, can-do person, it’s…

Patriarchy

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Before Patriarchy Can, Paternalism Must Fall
Before Patriarchy Can, Paternalism Must Fall
Patriarchy

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Better Humans

·May 18, 2022

How To Decide Whether To Let Go of That Project Going Nowhere

Lessons learned about feeling your way forward and giving up gracefully — I have a habit of starting things. It can be a gift, for sure. The cost of this gift is that I often find myself overwhelmed by all the things I’ve committed to. This is something I’ve struggled with for my whole life. The good news is that I’ve been…

Productivity

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How To Decide Whether To Let Go of That Project Going Nowhere
How To Decide Whether To Let Go of That Project Going Nowhere
Productivity

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Works That Reconnect

·May 13, 2022

Design that reconnects: Weaving Joanna Macy’s teachings into design processes

One of the things I enjoy most about being a designer is that so much of the practice is centered around asking powerful questions. Particularly as a designer passionate about climate justice, I am never short of questions to ask. How can we best stem ecosystem collapse? Who is most…

Sustainability Design

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Design that reconnects: Weaving Joanna Macy’s teachings into design processes
Design that reconnects: Weaving Joanna Macy’s teachings into design processes
Sustainability Design

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An Injustice!

·Jul 26, 2020

Decolonizing Creative-preneurship: What it means and what it takes

Since I was a little girl, I’ve known I am and always will be an artist. I also have always known that, unlike other passions, careers, and paths, this would not be sufficient in the eyes of my society and economy. I knew I would need to not only keep…

Equality

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Decolonizing Creative-preneurship: What it means and what it takes
Decolonizing Creative-preneurship: What it means and what it takes
Equality

12 min read


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Nightingale

·Jun 11, 2020

Using Data Storytelling to Disrupt White Supremacy Culture

Data storytelling can help shift the unconscious beliefs that underpin white supremacy. Here’s how.

Design Ethics

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Using Data Storytelling to Disrupt White Supremacy Culture
Using Data Storytelling to Disrupt White Supremacy Culture
Design Ethics

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UX Planet

·Jun 3, 2020

9 tips for inviting useful ideas and feedback

Let’s face it: All of us struggle with feedback. We generally avoid receiving it unless we have to, we frequently deny it when we do get it, and we rarely use it to make any substantial changes. It’s horribly tragic because when we turn to one another, we always have…

Ideas

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9 tips for inviting useful ideas and feedback
9 tips for inviting useful ideas and feedback
Ideas

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Apr 14, 2020

Do’s and don’ts for using visuals during virtual meetings

With social distancing in full swing, virtual meetings are on the rise! The good news is that they are generally cheaper, can allow for more participants, and with many technology solutions to choose from they are easier to plan for and arrange than ever. But they don’t come without some…

Socialdistancing

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Do’s and don’ts for using visuals during virtual meetings
Do’s and don’ts for using visuals during virtual meetings
Socialdistancing

4 min read

Lydia Hooper

Lydia Hooper

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Designer, facilitator, author and creator of 40 day listening challenge. www.lydiahooper.com

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