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Diogenes Brito

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Diogenes Brito

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Leading Design 2018: Leading without Authority, Leadership as a Designer or a Dancer

October 18, 2018 Diogenes Brito

Designers can supercharge their teams but helping them make better decisions faster. They do this by functioning in the three primary roles of facilitator (assisting others in refining and sharing ideas), steward (of a user centered creative process), and connoisseur (an expert arbiter of taste). Playing these three primary roles effectively in order to amplify your team's quality output and ethically succeed in business requires leadership. Without explicit authority, individual contributors must use influence to lead, just like the "leader" in a social dance.

In this talk, I'll take you through the qualities and habits of amazing social dance leaders and how they're the same as or analogous to those of effective designers. I talk about how things like clear expectations, unambiguous communication, adaptive styling, and responsive feedback characterize great leaders, on the dance floor and in the boardroom.

Source: https://2018.leadingdesignconf.com/speaker...

Awwwards 2018: Design as the Downbeat, The layers of Salsa Music and Good Design Work

June 26, 2018 Diogenes Brito
Source: https://www.awwwards.com/talk-slack-senior...

FEST_17: Shaping a Culture of Innovation

October 17, 2017 Diogenes Brito

http://fest.pe

Front Salt Lake City 2017: Design or Die Trying

May 31, 2017 Diogenes Brito

https://www.frontutah.com

AIGA Design Conference: Design as a Service

October 17, 2016 Diogenes Brito

http://designconference2016.aiga.org/

Forge 2016: Earning a Seat at the Table

October 9, 2016 Diogenes Brito

What is the table? Why do you want to be there? Why should a designer be invited to it?

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Ideate @ Duke 2016

April 23, 2016 Diogenes Brito

Referenced Resources

  • Stanford d.school's "Boot Camp Bootleg"
  • Design thinking methods

Learning About Design on Your Own

Read stuff by smart people (list is WIP)

  • Julie Zhou
  • Cap Watkins
  • Chapory Rith
  • Cat Noone
  • Braden Kowitz
  • Jake Knapp

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