Whitepapers

Experiment. Give yourself the freedom to learn, to be a beginner again and to try something new.   Nobody wants to second-guess their career choice. Yet there I was, in my first “real” UX role designing the interface for a mobile game, wondering whether I’d made the right call. My worry? The flat visual mockups and addictive user flows that I was working on delivered…

There’s no one right way to plan your schedule: It depends on how you structure your workday.   If early birds catch the worms, it’s because the worm catching is rigged in their favor. According to board-certified sleep specialist Michael Breus, workplaces are typically built around people who thrive in the mornings, and night owls tend to lose out. “In the normal, everyday…

Leadership… A pretty vast topic. The debates around effective leadership always evoke some pretty heated debate and numerous perspectives. We all have our stories of the successful and inspirational leaders we have worked for and with, the qualities they possess and how they have engaged those around them. In leadership it can be easy to become caught up in status, power and control,…

Culture isn’t just a buzzword. It’s the key to changing your workplace into a place people want to be and not a place people hate. What would it be like to have a job where team members celebrated the workplace, rather than just tolerating it? It can happen, and it’s not as hard as you might think. Even though 2 out of 3 Americans hate their job, as I pointed out in my last…

Culture can best be defined in terms of the values that guide the behavior and decision making of a social unit—a team, a family, a business, etc. Culture is not vague and touchy-feely; cultures can be easily and reliably assessed using any number of commercially available survey instruments. Cultures have real, concrete behavioral consequences, and they directly influence the performance of…