Ask Like a Designer — Design Skills Articles

In Ask Like a Designer, I write about Fluid Hive’s 7 Design Skills. I share design ideas, methods, frameworks, templates, and a question-fueled approach to designing services and solutions. Each article gives you things to start using today. Cheers ~ Dawan

Fluid Hive Design Skills

  1. Designing Solutions
  2. Facilitating Meaningful Moments
  3. Evolving Personal Performance
  4. Evolving Team Performance
  5. Telling Stories
  6. Leading Change
  7. Shifting Systems

Newest Ideas

024 // Micro Jobs & How to Hire Like a Designer

Want to hire like a designer? Start by rethinking what hiring means. Why do we hire people? The answer isn’t to do work or fulfill a job description. The answer isn’t even an answer; it’s a better question: What problems are we trying to solve by hiring someone? Why Hire Like a Designer? If we hire a Senior Graphic Designer, we are hiring someone to solve graphic design problems, right? Not really. We’re hiring someone to apply graphic design abilities to help in solving problems faced by the...

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Design ideas, methods, frameworks, templates, and a question-fueled approach to designing services and solutions

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