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Imposter Syndrome Definitively Ends for Everyone at Age 58
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Dear "Dear Designer" Designer
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Design at the Crossroads: A Shifting Economy of Digital Creativity
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Designers Don’t Need AI to Design
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Warning: This Design Job May Contain Traces of Human Emotions
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Falling Upward in Freezing Rain
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Designers Don’t Read Books (at Work)
Plus, announcing TypeQuote, a new way to read quotes (wherever)
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Andrew Boardman
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Designers Don’t Need AI to Design
We want tools that deepen research, improve flow, and respect and advance our craft
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Andrew Boardman
The Race Is the Easy Part
About 7 things that running taught me about design — and about independence, mistakes, falling, getting up and doing it all over again
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Andrew Boardman
Imposter Syndrome Definitively Ends for Everyone at Age 58
On self-doubt, cosmic insignificance, creative survival, and the long arc of becoming
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Andrew Boardman
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Design and Mystery
On the unknowable nature of design and why that matters more than ever.
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Andrew Boardman
Falling Upward in Freezing Rain
On calculated risks, creative resilience, and the importance of self-compassion
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Andrew Boardman
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Talking to the Refrigerator: Adventures in Not-Doing
Giving up tech for a day and remembering that rest is not a life hack
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Andrew Boardman
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