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The key to success isn’t prioritizing your schedule. It’s scheduling your priorities.

or, how to get the new year off to a killer start without a gym membership.

Jan 4, 2023

The key to success isn’t prioritizing your schedule. It’s scheduling your priorities.

Jan 4, 2023

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Inside the Experience Transformation process.

or, it’s no longer enough to improve your user experience. It’s time to transform it.

Oct 24, 2022

Inside the Experience Transformation process.

Oct 24, 2022

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Crush your design challenges with a Unicorn Invasion.

Or, how to transform any project in just five days with our unique design sprint.

Sep 27, 2022

Crush your design challenges with a Unicorn Invasion.

Sep 27, 2022

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Innovating on the business of innovation.

Introducing Sharpen Partners.

Sep 1, 2022

Innovating on the business of innovation.

Sep 1, 2022

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UX your life.

or, applying the user-centered process to your life (and stuff).

Jul 29, 2021

UX your life.

Jul 29, 2021

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A mindful standup.

or, a defense of making gratitudes part of your daily status meetings.

Apr 29, 2021

A mindful standup.

Apr 29, 2021

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A 411 on the WFH.

or, three steps to keep your sht together while getting sht done in your PJs.

Aug 31, 2020

A 411 on the WFH.

Aug 31, 2020

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Covid’s law.

or, remote accessibility is good for users and for businesses in good times and in a pandemic.

May 19, 2020

Covid’s law.

May 19, 2020

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Now is the right time to recommit to a culture of innovation.

or, four techniques and one tip to help you transform your business into one that’s more productive, profitable, and rewarding.

Apr 21, 2020

Now is the right time to recommit to a culture of innovation.

Apr 21, 2020

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“This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously.”

or, how embracing risk in times of crisis can transform uncertainty into innovation and growth for you and your business.

Mar 25, 2020

“This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously.”

Mar 25, 2020

A free quarantine sign for lovers of typography and iconography.

or, if you’re stuck in quarantine, you might as well let people know in style.

Mar 20, 2020

A free quarantine sign for lovers of typography and iconography.

Mar 20, 2020

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Industries that thrived during the Great Depression.

or, this has all happened before and it will all happen again.

Mar 20, 2020

Industries that thrived during the Great Depression.

Mar 20, 2020

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Sharpen your d*mn axe

or, how I learned to stop creating discovery artifacts and to love research deliverables.

Feb 27, 2020

Sharpen your d*mn axe

Feb 27, 2020

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Whom Simon Senik left out

or, why starting with WHY is the bomb but ending with WHOM is even bombier

Dec 5, 2019

Whom Simon Senik left out

Dec 5, 2019

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I’m an artist but not the starving kind

My 2005 Newsweek op-ed about the shortcomings of design education. It’s just as true today as it was then. And I’m not too happy about it.

Aug 14, 2018

I’m an artist but not the starving kind

Aug 14, 2018

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The case for design thinking

Even after all these years and everything we’ve learned about design-led business and design-led products, prospective clients still ask…

Aug 9, 2018

The case for design thinking

Aug 9, 2018

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How to get sh*t done

or, practical advice—not vague bullshit—about pursuing your dreams and stuff

Feb 10, 2016

How to get sh*t done

Feb 10, 2016

How Northwood Elementary’s redistricting threatens to break up my family.

Two years ago, I moved to a suburban house in Roswell, Georgia specifically because it is in the Northwood Elementary school district. If…

Feb 5, 2016

How Northwood Elementary’s redistricting threatens to break up my family.

Feb 5, 2016

JD Jordan

JD Jordan

Awesome dad, killer novelist, design executive, and cancer survivor. Also, charming AF. Work with him or book him at importantshit.co.

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