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Leading Design Connect: Designing Change

As a design leader, it’s very rare that you get the opportunity to build a team from the ground up. For most of us, we inherit a pre-existing team. And often, these teams may need to undergo change to be successful.

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Rebecca Groves

15 October 2021

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Story before screens

Reflections from our storytelling workshop with Ben Sauer on communicating with confidence to become proficient presenters.

Carly Farrer

Carly Farrer

21 March 2023

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Eliminating dead ends for a better user journey

Smooth journeys begin by ensuring there is a journey to take.

Alex Edwards

Alex Edwards

20 March 2023

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Calculating the value of user research

Can you put a price on the insights gained from evaluative or generative research?

Luke Hay

Luke Hay

15 March 2023

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Supporting the women among us

Taking a minute to reflect on the resources and events that support the women among us to further our skills in digital and tech

Sophie Count

Sophie Count

8 March 2023

The discovery paradox

Why is finding the known unknowns so important?

Jon Aizelwood

Jon Aizlewood

29 September 2021

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Reflections from San Francisco

With San Francisco being our third Leading Design conference in twelve months, I decided to take a moment and reflect on the patterns which emerged.

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Rebecca Groves

2 March 2023

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Redesigning UX London

Tweaking the format of the event.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

21 February 2023

  • Tiny Lesson

Three attributes for better web forms

Better UX through better HTML: inputmode, enterkeyhint, and autocomplete.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

23 January 2023

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Surveys – a useful, but dangerous research method

Large-scale surveys are commonly used for opinion polls or customer satisfaction. While they can be a vital tool for design research, they should be used with caution.

Luke Hay

Luke Hay

20 January 2023

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Principles for Design Principles

What rules should you keep in mind when creating design principles?

Katie Wishlade

Katie Wishlade

24 August 2021

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What is internal service design?

Internal service design is a term Clearleft uses with clients to emphasise how important the employee experience is in shaping the customers’ experience.

Richard Rutter

Richard Rutter

17 January 2023

Clearleft's best bits of 2022

As we return from the recent festive break bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and ready to face what 2023 throws at us, we remind ourselves of the joys that 2022 brought with it.

Frances Ulph

Frances Ulph

4 January 2023

What’s the difference between coaching and mentoring?

What exactly is the difference between coaching and mentoring and when should you choose one over the other?

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Rebecca Groves

12 December 2022

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Designing a Utopian layout grid: working with fluid responsive values in a static design tool.

A layout grid is a useful aid for a designer organising information in a given space. Although these grids have their roots in print design, where dimensions are fixed, fluid layout grids still have some utility in responsive design.

James Gilyead

James Gilyead

7 December 2022

Futures, features and fixes – Setting your product team up for success

Successful and sustainable digital products come from a blend of innovation and iteration. Yet most design teams and their digital product roadmaps are out of balance.

Chris How

Chris How

26 July 2021

Leading Design is headed Stateside again

We’re delighted to be able to bring Leading Design to San Francisco on 7 & 8 February 2023.

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Rebecca Groves

5 December 2022

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Avoiding groupthink: fine-tuning CSS specifications

Every now and then Clearlefties are asked to help out the CSS Working Group. Invariably it’s also a chance to learn, not just about upcoming CSS, but also new methods of collaboration and group decision making.

Richard Rutter

Richard Rutter

21 November 2022

Lessons from Leading Design London 2022

Key take-aways from two days of learning, inspiration and connection with the Leading Design community

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Rebecca Groves

8 November 2022

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That was dConstruct 2022

The last ever dConstruct.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

11 October 2022

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