Building design capability in every client

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Building design capability  in every client Stephen Collins Founder - acidlabs @trib Photo by Austin Ban on Unsplash Managing Design 2018

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Photo by Bing Han on Unsplash “Hi, I’m Stephen.  My job is being curious about the world.”

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Photo by Manoj Karingamadathil on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 “I solve difﬁcult problems for a living.”

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Design?

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Design!

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Most of our engagements are one or two designers embedded with a client team for 4-12 weeks Photo by Pierre Châtel-Innocenti on Unsplash

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For many of our clients, design is very new Photo by Christian Joudrey on Unsplash

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They often work with well-deﬁned project methodologies… that they are very unfamiliar with

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They are often  hungry to learn

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Design is a  team sport Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash

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How might we  go about doing this? Photo by Steve Halama on Unsplash

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There’s a lot of just designing

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Plenty of show-and-tell

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There’s a lot of  getting them to try things

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Of walking people through things

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Of building tools for them

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Doing this breaks momentum,  but embeds learning  and rewards curiosity Photo by Andreas Fidler on Unsplash

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Coach for the long game Image courtesy NBC

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Do you want to see  what it looks like IRL? Photo by Patrick Perkins on Unsplash

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Week 1 You’ve got to run before you can walk Photo by Joseph Rosales on Unsplash

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Week 2 The calm before the storm Photo by Pop & Zebra on Unsplash

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Week 3 and 4  Road trip!

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Week 5  So. Many. Post-its… Photo by Ferenc Horvath on Unsplash

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Week 6  Moments of clarity Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash

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Week 7  Forest, meet trees Photo by Stefan Steinbauer on Unsplash

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Week 8  What else? Photo by Sam Mgrdichian on Unsplash

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Today? Photo by Curtis MacNewton on Unsplash

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Why would you do this? Photo by Evan Dennis on Unsplash

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Thank you. This is me [email protected] @trib This is us [email protected] @acidlabs https://acidlabs.design/

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