Author: Jesse James Garrett
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Ajax at 20
It’s easy to forget how different the web was 20 years ago. Web pages were static things, rendered once and forever. Nothing moved or changed on the web, unless it was an animated GIF. Nothing was dynamic, nothing was real-time, nothing was live, except whatever was supported by this optional extension or that. JavaScript was…
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Be the anomaly: Roger L. Martin on Finding Our Way
We’ve had a lot of intellectually expansive conversations on Finding Our Way over the years, but our latest episode with business strategist Roger Martin might be the first to merit its own reading list. So here’s a quick rundown of some of the works referenced in our conversation: As you can see, we really covered…
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Living up to a design legacy: Peter Skillman on Finding Our Way
In a world full of “zero-to-one” leaders, stepping into ownership of a century-old legacy is a completely different kind of leadership challenge. Peter Skillman is the latest design leader to take on that challenge for Philips, and his insights on the latest episode of our design leadership podcast Finding Our Way have meaningful implications even…
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Setting expectations with partners: Audrey Crane on Finding Our Way
When I left my last in-house role, I realized how much I had missed the broad perspective that comes from working as a consultant. It can be so easy as an in-house leader to get caught up in in-house perspectives, in-house thinking, and even in-house language that frames both our problems and their potential solutions.…
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Junior talent, strategic ambitions: Gaurav Mathur on Finding Our Way
India has been a powerhouse in software engineering for decades, but it’s only in recent years that Indian schools have started producing large numbers of qualified digital product designers. As a result, senior Indian designers with the experience to drive high-value design work can be difficult or impossible to hire on the open market. For…
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Storytelling at end-of-year
It’s end-of-year performance review time in a lot of organizations and for many of the leaders in my coaching practice, storytelling is front and center. Here’s some perspective on the story you tell at end of year from the leaders I work with: 📈 It’s not just a story about how you’ve made your team…
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Bridging the Gap: Creating True Partnership Between Product and Design
I had such a great time speaking and hanging out with the community at Y OSLO last week! It was fun to hear the reactions to my talk “Bridging the Gap: Creating True Partnership Between Product and Design”. I continue to be fascinated by the shared challenges and the common ground we find when we…
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Credibility in leadership: Leslie Witt on Finding Our Way
Why won’t executives take design leaders seriously? Why do they seem to consider the perspective of a newly-minted product leader more valuable than that of a veteran design leader? And what can design leaders do to change the equation? Some clues can be found in our recent conversation on Finding Our Way with Leslie Witt,…
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Leadership coach as consulting editor
Recently, I’ve been working with an increasing number of design leaders looking for help getting their ideas into a form that’s ready to be shared with the world. It’s a fun full-circle moment for me, since my earliest work in tech was as an editor. I worked with writers to create “web friendly” content that…
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Talking about my career journey on Reconsidering
This is one of the most personal interviews I’ve done. It’s rare that I get the chance to talk publicly about the personal motivations and values that have guided my work throughout my career, from agency to in-house to leadership coach. So I was excited when the team at Reconsidering invited me onto their show…
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