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Catt Small

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

And so that's something I end up talking a lot about.

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

with people.

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

And I do have some suggestions in the book as well.

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

I believe they mostly boil down to figuring out ways to clarify that certain parts of the UI are for placement only.

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

So for example, can you redact text?

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

Can you use a different color and overlay a different color to make it clear?

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

This is just an idea.

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

Even if you do have to use a relatively moderate level of fidelity because your audience needs that kind of thing to understand a concept, you can still make it clear what they should be focusing on.

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

And that is actually the point.

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

We are directing focus as designers.

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

And essentially, the book and the way that I work, I'm trying to encourage people to

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

use the same skills they use, as you mentioned before, for their customers, use that for how you operate in the role.

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

So leadership is an audience.

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

They're your customers sometimes.

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

And you have to figure out how to essentially

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

you know, solve the problem of the communication issue that's at hand.

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

And yeah, if you have to redact some texts, but you need to still have the UI look pretty nice, you know, that kind of nets out at like a moderate level of fidelity that explains or communicates very quickly, you know, we're just being hypothetical here.

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

So that's what I think about a lot.

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

Like, how do I make sure that I'm focusing my audience's energy on the right thing so that we can make the right decision?

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How staff designers can lead without being managers with Catt Small

It's been awesome.