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Setting Direction

Before you improve the work, you need to know what the work is trying to be part of. This pillar covers vision, mission, principles, and team identity. The questions that have to come first, in environments where nobody thought to answer them before you arrived.

Nobody told me my first job wasn't about design

A real situation from my first month as a manager, what it revealed about the direction problem, and one thing you can do differently this week.

Unlocking Your Team Potential: Design Team Principles

Designers are already familiar with design principles or the key characteristics and goals for a product, which helps designers validate their design decisions. In addition to the design principles that drive your product design decisions, you also need to define the principles that drive behavior, attitudes, and aspirations of the

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