The Crazy One

We all have had times when you struggle to find ideas and you feel like you are in a slump. In this episode, we will look at the different types of creative slumps, the reasons why they happen and the techniques you can use to break out of them.

Teams make some basic mistakes in the way they are design their apps. In this episode, we will go through everything I have learned designing multiple iOS and Android apps that have gone on to be included in Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and more.

There is a lot of nuance and emotion that goes into creativity and part of your success will be determined by how well you understand and control those emotions. Insecurity and frustration play a huge part in helping or hurting your creative process so its something you need to be able to control. In this episode, we will look at the stages on creative insecurity, how social media can effect it and some technique to help you better control it.

There has been a huge growth of in-house creative teams which has resulted in a changing relationship between companies and their agencies. In this episode, we will look at the pro’s and con’s of in-house and agency creative teams, the different ways they work and where we these relationships need to in the future.

A quick update on the new sessions I will be bringing to Adobe MAX 2017 this October in Las Vegas on building your personal brand and empowering your in-house creative team.

How to do approach someone who you want to learn from, how do you know what type of mentor you should be and how do both sides do it successfully? In this episode, we will look at how to find or become a mentor, start a productive conversation and set both sides of the mentor/mentee relationship up for success.

The relationship and trust between creatives and their clients is one of the most important parts of the creative process. In this episode, we will look at how to build a solid foundation with your clients, the importance of trust, how you can training bad traits out of difficult clients, avoid problems by including them in the creative process and some basic tips to building rapport.

One of the biggest challenges comes from company executives who throw out ideas that are blindly followed instead of taking the time to understand the real problem. In this episode, I will walk you through the most common places where this happens and how you can overcome it to let your team be creative and empowered.

Answering listener questions about how you can pick the right time to ask for a raise or promotion, the best way to negotiate your raise, how you can get remote teams to work together more seamlessly, and a discussion of how companies should value and hire creative talent.

In this third in a 3-part series, we will look at implementation which is the final phase of Design Thinking where you bring the insights and concepts to life in prototyping, testing and final delivery. Then we will look at some of the ways you can bring Design Thinking into your team.

The second in a 3-part crash course in Design Thinking. In this episode, I will teach you how to take the insights you found through your research in the inspiration phase and start to brainstorm ideas by learning how to craft ‘How might we’ statements and the 7 rules for running a better brainstorm.

This is the first in a 3 part series in Design Thinking that will teach you all the important parts of this methodology that I learned while becoming an IDEO certified Design Thinking trainer. In this episode, I will give you an overview of all of the parts of Design Thinking and then explore the first inspiration phase which consists of research and synthesis.

The world is always changing around us and we need to be able to see these changes because they give us the opportunity to create disruptive ideas. This episode will teach you lessons in non-traditional disruption from different industries and how you can learn to overcome cognitive bias to spot these opportunities before everyone else.

Answering listener questions about how to figure out what salary you should ask for, and how to show your company the value of an in-house creative team.

Companies want creativity like never before but very few of their internal creative teams have been empowered or supported to be able to take advantage of this demand. In this episode I share everything I've learned from my career about how to successfully position and fix in-house teams.