March 17, 2022

Ryan Rumsey on re-engineering over re-inventing to make faster business impact

57 minutes

#008 - As designers, we take on the responsibility to make the world better through design and we feel we have to come up with new ideas and solutions. But sometimes, reusing a solution that already works might be a faster and more impactful approach. In this episode, author of Business Thinking for Designers and CEO of Second Wave Dive shares his stories of making business impact through re-engineering successful tools and methods. Ryan also shares his struggles growing as a designer and design executive and how he thought he wasn’t doing a good job. He also shares his advice on building your contextual awareness of your organisation to be a more effective designer. Ryan also reveals the various factors that shaped him throughout his life and importance of self-work in continuously iterating your values and maintaining your wellbeing as a designer.

In this episode:

When you’re thinking you’re not doing a good job
Living your values authentically and iteratively
Letting go of the idea that I have to invent everything
The impact of your organisation's narrative
Building your contextual awareness within your organisation
Importance of self-work

Shownotes

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