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10 Tips for Creating a Job-Winning Design Portfolio

Curating your design portfolio might sound like a daunting task, but it’s creating a great meal. You need the right balance of the right ingredients.

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Emotional Intelligence, Part 3 – Improving Your Relationship Management

Three concrete tips for improving your relationship management, thanks to the book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Drs. Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves.

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Emotional Intelligence, Part 2 – Improving Your Social Awareness

Three concrete tips for improving your social awareness, thanks to the book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Drs. Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves.

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Why I Ditched Spotlight for Spreadsheets

macOS's Spotlight feature is really handy for doing basic calculations, but you really should be using spreadsheets instead.

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Emotional Intelligence, Part 1 – Improving Your Self-Management

Three concrete tips for improving self-management, thanks to the book Emotional Intelligence 2.0.

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Freshen Up Your Work in 2017

With the new year ringing in, I thought I would share a few of my tips for keeping my process fresh and not falling into a rut in the office.

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Read the Frickin’ Manual

Most of areas where I’m viewed as most knowledgable are disciplines that I learned via the simple act of slogging through documentation.

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For Better Meetings, Use Better Tools

If led with care, meetings can be a fantastic vehicle for building the emotional connections and shared understanding crucial to a successful project.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Networking

Following these tips, networking can transition from a random set of encounters to an intentional path to further your own professional development.

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Bring Joy to Your Desktop Backgrounds with Workflow Automation

Bored with stock art backgrounds and don't care enough to search for anything better? Workflow.app makes it easy to collect great desktop background images.

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Quenching the Fire of Clients From Hell

What happened? How did our software project end up in hell? And more importantly: How can we get back on track?

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Three Tips for a New Conference Speaker

Three things that helped me prepare for a conference talk as a beginner—know the environment, involve the audience, and breathe.

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