The Power of Digging Deep Into the Culture of an Organization

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Like a lot of superheroes, I feel like my greatest strength is my greatest weakness. So digging deep into these rules for this particular organization is my happy place and they are giving me a long leash to do it. But we don't have that on every project, right? And so part of me needs to be the Steve Rogers or the Clark Kent, right? Who needs to kind of work with other people, not in a X-ray vision kind of way,. Not using the superpowers, but are we progressing towards our goals? Are we getting towards the objectives that we set out for this project?Are we getting to something that's feasible, that's buildable, that we know

Dan Brown inspires us to get great at asking questions because 'the question' is one of our most invincible resources. He reminds us to maintain a spirit of collaboration with the the team members we’re struggling with since they care as much about the project as we do. He encourages us to always peer beneath the surface at the underlying structure of whatever we’re working on. He also motivates us to never settle.

Secret Identity (7:47)
Origin Story (9:29)
Biggest Failure (20:23)
Awkward Testing Story (23:27)
Design Superpower (28:04)
Design Kryptonite (30:52)
UX Superhero Name (33:50)
Fights for Users (36:08)
Habit of Success (40:54)
Invincible Resource (43:27)
Recommended Book (51:23)
Practical Design Discovery (53:40)
Overcoming Team Tension (57:00)
Best Advice (69:04)
Contact Info (71:48)

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