The distributed team structure is known to offer many benefits for a company and its employees; however, this sort of work model also comes with its own unique set of obstacles. In this article, we’ll review how “remote soft-skills” can help with the challenge of building authentic connections with your distributed co-workers.
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Enter the Brand System: a shared library that defines the brand’s story, symbols, and strategy. Learn how Brand Systems can help avoid fragmentation, confusion, and exclusion within teams.
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Take a moment to remember the last time you collaborated in a code review. Did your team overcome feedback resistance and manage time expectations? Fostering a healthy mindset is the key to build trust and sharing knowledge with your colleagues.
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The web is wonderfully diverse and unpredictable because of wonderfully diverse people shaping it. In this new series of short interviews, we talk to interesting people doing interesting work in our industry and sharing what they’ve learned.
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Involving other people early on — especially people from other disciplines — can feel scary. By taking inspiration from code reviews, we can improve collaboration both within our own fields as well as across disciplines, be it design, UX, content or development.
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This article is for people who are part of a design team (or any team) that makes crucial business decisions with stakeholders and how they might go about building a diverse team through the use of the Competing Values Framework evaluation.
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Creating a team who can work well together across different disciplines can be hard. Rachel Andrew solicits some suggestions from the speakers at our upcoming SmashingConf in Toronto.
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What does it take to be a great UX leader? Well, not only do you need to provide clear guidance, but also empower different individuals in your team.
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What do you look out for when hiring team members? In this article, Christopher Murphy outlines how to go about building a UX team and which attributes to look out for when hiring.
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There are a good number of benefits and reasons why you should consider integrating design workouts into your team. In this article, Arthur shares some exercises which are worth trying out with your design team and get you all to train before the big game — together.
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