One of my 2019 resolutions is to make more. I love creating something out of nothing, love exercising my imagination, and I love the sense of accomplishment I get when I can successfully translate my vision out of my head and onto paper (or increasingly, the screen!) There’s really few feelings like it, and in 2019 I want to reconnect with that feeling a lot more regularly.
Another year is almost at its end, and I’m genuinely unsure where all the time this year has gone! Before 2018 disappears completely, I thought it’d be good to look back at some of my highlights from the year, and to talk a little bit about what I see ahead.
This is the second in a series of posts where I cover tips I’ve picked up that have helped me attend, organise and facilitate better meetings. The first post covered attending meetings. This second post will cover organising meetings.
As designers working in a team with others, we know that a fair chunk of our time will be spent with other people – gathering information, generating ideas and debating problems – in forums like meetings, workshops or sprints.
With that in mind, I always think it’s crazy how we spend so much time learning about our design craft, yet when it comes to learning about how to negotiate the often tricky world of meetings, workshops, sprints or even informal catchups with our colleagues, we are often left firmly in the dark, and having to just ‘learn on the job’.
