Building a Design Culture at Social Pinpoint
Overview When MySite acquired Harvest Digital Planning, The HiVE didn’t merge with Social Pinpoint, it replaced it. The product I had spent years designing and building was rebranded as the new Social Pinpoint, and the original Social Pinpoint was sunsetted. It was a significant validation of the work done in those early years, and it...
Establishing Design Foundations at The HiVE
Overview When I joined Harvest Digital Planning, the timing was — let’s say — characteristically design industry. The previous designer resigned almost the week I arrived. Handover consisted mostly of a front-end developer’s perspective on how things were built, a live product to reverse-engineer, and very little in the way of actual design assets or...
A Design Leadership Survival Guide: The Weight of Other People’s Creativity
Nobody warns you that becoming a design lead is like being handed the nuclear codes, except instead of world-ending weapons, you’re responsible for a group of highly sensitive creatives who can smell bullshit from three departments away and will passive-aggressively redesign the company logo in Comic Sans if you piss them off. One day you’re...
