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Workplace • Issue 016
The Evolving Workplace
COVID-19 has forever changed the workplace. The mundaneness of daily commutes, morning lattes, and conference table meetings was upended practically overnight with stay-at-home orders, makeshift workstations, and on-screen views of everyone’s very real living spaces, pets, and kids.
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Workplace • Issue 016
Designing for Designers
If you’ve ever taken on a design project with a designer for a client, you know that dueling opinions often lead to frustration—theirs, yours, or both. It stands to reason, because designers are paid to have strong points of view. They know what they like. They have their own ideas and lofty goals. Designer egos? Let’s just say, self-confidence is a practical job requirement. And as consultants themselves, they know the traditional client management tricks and aren’t likely to appreciate being “handled.” Now imagine that your client is a whole room full of designers. Are you brave enough (foolish enough?) to believe you can lead them to accept your vision?
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Workplace • Issue 016
The Rise of the Remote Meeting
Those of us who chose to work remotely before 2020, at a time when we could move freely between our home offices and our communities, did so with immense privilege. I am one of these people.
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Community • Issue 016
Igniting Social Change Through a Screen
Writer’s Block inK was started in 2003 in New London, Connecticut, as a non-profit organization to support youth in writing and performing as tools to address personal and social challenges on the community stage.
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Workplace • Issue 016
Career Interrupted
For the past 20 years, I have helped businesses build innovation teams and helped design professionals find career success.
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Blog • Virtual
Design Night LIVE Recap
Catch up (or relive!) what you missed at Design Night LIVE, our biggest virtual community event and fundraise, ever!
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Podcast • Community
The Bionic Hand: Powered Prosthetic Devices Controlled by Sensors
This week we’re talking prosthetic design, specifically advancements that utilize sensors and robotics to improve the lives of individuals living with limb-loss and limb-difference. In early-2018, we unveiled a new exhibition called Bespoke Bodies: The Design & Craft of Prosthetics.
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Blog • Education
Post COVID-19: How will we live and work?
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have an enormous impact on the world, our lives, and our work situations. When the pandemic changed Wentworth student options for work-based learning, the university created a future program to fill the gap of real world experience.
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Podcast • Community
Being Black in Design
We hear from two prominent Black designers on the Black experience in design, including their amazing career journeys, how they’ve navigated an industry dominated by white designers, and their advice for young designers of color.
