If you’re reading this, you’ve probably been working at home for at least a week (maybe more) and have mastered the basics on the transition: You’ve scheduled regular Zoom happy hours with colleagues and friends, you’ve created standing team syncs […]
There’s a time for everything: Inspiration, learning, attempting, doing nothing, et cetera. Right now… well, we’re finding that we’re spending our time more intentionally than ever. On one hand, with kids at home and pressure to make our jobs work […]
What does it take to get 700 fully-distributed employees from across the world to show up, collaborate, and effectively operate as a business in sync? That’s a question the our people team often gets asked. We’ll be the first to […]
The traditional format of a design meeting may work well for many people, Jehad Affoneh included. Jehad, the head of design at VMware, tends to think on his feet and is generally comfortable voicing his opinion, even when he disagrees […]
At its core, design is a collaborative practice. From design reviews, sprints, group sketching, and cross-functional feedback, the process requires an “all-hands-on-deck” mentality that’s organically created when working shoulder-to-shoulder with colleagues . So when a brisk transition to working remotely […]
As a precocious kid, Joanna Peña-Bickley enjoyed disassembling things around the house, reconceptualizing them, and then trying to sell her inventions at a garage sale. Not much was safe from her clever engineering: She even once had plans to take […]
In hopes of containing Coronavirus (and keeping the global economy as stable as possible), many businesses all over the world are doing their part to limit unnecessary person-to-person interactions by requiring some or all of their employees to work from […]
Design innovation and financial services might not seem like they belong together—one requires broad thinking, rapid testing, and outside-the box ideas, while the other comes with extensive regulations and a fast moving yet risk-averse user base. But Goldman Sachs is […]
After more than 160 years as a Spanish banking giant, BBVA faced a challenge: creating a unified brand across all of their digital and physical properties in 11 countries, including thousands of branches and corporate buildings. Though global chief marketing […]
The daughter of molecular biologists, Natalya Shelburne grew up believing the arts and sciences were deeply connected. In college, though, she gravitated toward the liberal arts, majoring in fine arts and psychology after being told that she was too creative—and […]
