Our presenter this week was Principal UX Designer at Amazon Margaret Darcher. She spoke about her experiences at amazon and approach to making decisions. In this weeks blog assignment we are being tasked to pick 3 leadership principals that we have exuded recently and one that we might have trouble with showing.
First principal I am choosing is Think Big, my most recent example of this is in our UX/UI class where we are being tasked to develop a Fashion App in Figma. My partner was giving out strong ideas towards the main structure of the app, meanwhile I was thinking big about what could separate us from competitors. Not going to share what those ideas were because I may want to run with them in the future :).
Second Principal is Invent and Simplify. It goes well with the previous principal because even though I tend to think big, I usually am able to keep that core idea and simplify it to a more functional idea. Latest example of that would be again in our UX/UI design class, I originally wanted to redesign a website for a project from the ground up, Had all these wonderful ideas that would have taken someone with my skill level months to figure out, instead I shrunk down those ideas into something structurally sound and aesthetically what I was hoping for.
The third principal would be to Learn and Be Curious. Most recent example would be in my AR/VR class, I had no interest in this field until this module and once I learned about it I am now more curious than ever.
One I see myself struggling with is Have Backbone: Disagree and Commit, sometimes I let others opinions outweigh mine, I am trying to get better about it but it is still something I struggle with.