Career Growth
Onboarding to a new team in thirty days
If you are starting a new project with a new stakeholder, a new job, or even a new team, what should you do in the first 30 days?
Leadership
Cultural challenge: innovation conflicts with operational efficiency
Closing the chapter of my first team
Leadership
The power of confidence lies within vulnerability
Authenticity demands imperfection and vulnerability
Career Growth
10 things I learned from women leadership
We are bold women.
Life
Linkedin content experimentation
Greetings from Seattle
Writing
Learnings from writing a newsletter for a year
I'm still here...
Research
Premium Edition: How to design innovation - video
84% of company leadership believe innovation is a high priority, but 94% of them are dissatisfied with the performance of the innovation. A great product and service is long-lasting, but how do we know the idea today will stick?
Frameworks & Mental Model
How to speak about complex topics to college students
I presented a talk called "How do you design innovation" at the University of Chicago and SAIC, focusing on customer-centric design and exploring Jobs-To-Be-Done. I aimed to cover this complex subject in less than 18 minutes.
AMA
Mentee AMA: how to level up to senior designer
As a personal project, I am working with Aaron to create a new Youtube series "Speedrun to Senior" where I will try to speed up his skills and fill the gaps.
Satire
There should be a course for being laid off
"Cat, are our jobs safe? Google is laying people off."
Burnout
Breaking trust is easy, because they don’t know how to fix it
A company’s business and way of working dictates the limitations and boundaries in which designers manage, operate, and deliver for end customers.
Writing
I'm a coward at writing
I'm a writing imposter