Aptara Workplace & Culture | People at Aptara (Suhas More)

At Aptara, creativity thrives in collaborative spaces that nurture continuous growth.

Suhas More, Lead Graphic Designer, shares his passion for our supportive environment that fuels professional development alongside talented teams. 🎨✨

#Aptara #PeopleAtAptara #DesignLeadership

Prompt and Pray: Are you Gambling with Generative AI? The Failure of Strategic Thinking and the Paradox of Uncertainity in AI Interaction

We’ve all been there. 🎰

"Prompt-and-Pray" isn't a strategy—it’s a game of chance. Strategy changes the math (from 17% to 78% accuracy).

Don't fall asleep at the wheel. Shift from chaos to Calm Tech. 🧘‍♂️

Full playbook on Medium:
medium.com/@appibara/pr...

#AI #CalmTech #GenAI #designleadership

Co-design Toolkit Tuesday - the growth edition. It truly is a superpower 🦸 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #psychology #research #designleadership #codesign #growth #servicedesign #toolkittuesday

Service Co-design practice and research week-notes 142. The early edition due to it being International Women’s Day tomorrow 😊🎢 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #designleadership #weeknotes

AI & Design Teams: What's actually changing? Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

There is a lot of noise anf fluff around #AI and Design. To get some data and insights I created a short survey. I will share the results with the design community If you are leadinging design teams, please take 5 min to share you thoughts!

tally.so/r/0QEyXP

#DesignLeadership #AIAdoption #UXDesign

Co-design Toolkit Tuesday - Empowerment Edition ✨ It’s a reminder to design with intention, care and connection 😊💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #empowerment #designleadership #codesign

Service Co-design practice and research week-notes 146. Five people and things to celebrate this week, all of whom help us design the invisible. Hope you have a good week ahead 😊🎢 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #DesignLeadership #ServiceDesign #CoDesign

We are pleased to announce Florian Seidl as the Designer Highlight of the Day of 12 February 2026. Please follow Florian Seidl's social media accounts here: www.designerhighlights.com?154515 #DesignLeadership #IndustrialDesign #designerhighlight #adesignaward

The Importance of Project Closure | Andy Polaine Most of the time leadership’s ambitions are greater than their willingness to resource them. If your teams are just jumping directly from one project to the next, you may be sowing the seeds of burnou...

My latest #DesignLeadership Coaching Reflections video explores why project closure is just as important as project kick-offs, but is often neglected: www.polaine.com/2026/02/the-...

Design systems in the AI age: How Soul is turning designers into builders Al isn’t automating our design system. It’s changing how designers build, own, and evolve it.

The biggest impact of AI on our design system wasn’t speed.
It was turning designers into builders.

Some reflections from working on Soul at Emplifi 👇

medium.com/emplifi-desi...

#DesignSystems #DesignEngineering #AI #DesignLeadership

Service Co-design practice and research week-notes 145. On this day today, is one of remembering Proclus, Burton and Murdoch. All of which have lessons for design today. Have a good week 😊🎢 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #designleadership #weeknotes

A brand is a decision system.

Steady steps.
Clear structure.
Confident color.

When every element works together, trust follows.

If you’re thinking about the role your brand plays as you grow, let’s talk. www.rule29.com/contact

#BrandStrategy #DesignLeadership

A warm welcome in to Thursday. This week I’ve been focusing on Anthropromorphism. It’s hard to say and so I usually refer to it as the ‘humanising bias’. As the result I started work on a ‘use with care’ framework 😊 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #designleadership

John Ternus takes the helm of Apple's design teams, signaling a new era of innovation and leadership. #Apple #JohnTernus #DesignLeadership #Innovation Link: thedailytechfeed.com/john-ternus-...

It's January and we could all use an extra bit of inspiration. Stay tuned next week as we highlight our 2026 design luminaries and celebrate those making a difference in communities across the globe.

#designleadership #design #wdocommunity

If you’re a designer in the Pittsburgh area who wants to own the design lifecycle for a mission-driven product, this is for you.

Full details and application link here: forcebuilders.link/3Y7XLya

#Hiring #ProductDesign #PittsburghJobs #UXUI #DesignLeadership #ForceBuilders

Here’s to a positive and peaceful 2026 😊💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #designleadership #servicedesign #codesign

The UX Coach™ | Andy Parker | Substack Personal development coaching for people looking for work with purpose and meaning. Click to read The UX Coach™, by Andy Parker, a Substack publication.

I’ll be making an effort in 2026 to write one article a month. Follow along at theuxcoach.substack.com

#servicedesign #digitaltransformation #designleadership

Your pipeline grows the moment you stop posting for other designers and start posting for your ideal clients.

Clean up your feed and post with intention. That is where the real shift happens.

#MarketingStrategy #AgencyLife #LeadGeneration #DesignLeadership #BusinessGrowth

Catch up on the recording from our #webinar with
#WDOMember Service Design Network to hear from leadership coach @andypolaine.bsky.social on the evolution of service design and it’s role as a catalyst for organizational change.

Watch now ➡️ bit.ly/wdosdn-webinar

#servicedesign #designleadership

Apple’s longtime design head Alan Dye joins Meta to lead new creative studio Apple Inc.’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, is leaving the company after almost 20 years and will now join Meta Platforms Inc. to head a new creative studio that will bring together design,...

Apple’s longtime design head Alan Dye joins Meta to lead new creative studio #Technology #Business #IndustryGiants #Apple #Meta #DesignLeadership

Meta poaches Apple design exec Alan Dye Dye led Apple's user interface team for the last decade.

Meta poaches Apple design exec Alan Dye #Technology #Business #AcquisitionsandMergers #Meta #Apple #DesignLeadership

UI design chief exits Apple to head up Meta’s new design studio Macworld Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that a key Apple executive is leaving the company (no, it’s not Tim Cook). Alan Dye, who leads Apple’s user interface design team, is leaving Apple Park...

UI design chief exits Apple to head up Meta’s new design studio #Technology #Business #IndustryGiants #Apple #Meta #DesignLeadership

On the first day of ‘mindful by design’ 🎁😊 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #design #research #psychology #designleadership #24DayCountdown

Service Co-design research and practice week-notes 135. Today I’ve been remembering Fernando Pessoa whose work on heteronyms has made a real impact on personas 😊💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #designleadership #servicedesign #codesign #ux #cx #hcd #humancentreddesign

No one talks about this enough:

The hardest part of being a designer
isn’t learning Figma.

It’s learning to take feedback
without taking it personally.

​#UXDesign #DesignThinking #DesignLeadership

A big warm welcome into Thursday. This week I’ve been down a surprisingly productive ‘rabbit hole’ of looking at how informatics works within service design. Have a good rest of your week everyone 😊🎢💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #designleadership #informatics

Service co-design research and practice week-notes 133. Today is the international day of tolerance. This is a healthy reminder about empathy and understanding 🤝 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #designleadership #servicedesign #codesign #ux #cx #hcd #weeknotes

Service co-design research and practice week-notes 132. It’s been a productive and reasonably good week. A lot to move forward on, including academic writing and focus group prep. Have a good week everyone 😊💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #designleadership #servicedesign

A big warm welcome into Thursday. This week among other things I’ve been inspired by the Pygmalion effect, in other words design for belief. Have a good rest of the week 😊💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #design #research #psychology #servicedesign #designleadership #ux #cx #humancentreddesign