Ryan Rumsey on re-engineering over re-inventing to make faster business impact

Design Feeling

#008 - As designers, we take on the responsibility to make the world better through design and we feel we have to come up with new ideas and solutions. But sometimes, reusing a solution that already works might be a faster and more impactful approach. In this episode, author of Business Thinking for Designers and CEO of Second Wave Dive shares his stories of making business impact through re-engineering successful tools and methods. Ryan also shares his struggles growing as a designer and design executive and how he thought he wasn’t doing a good job. He also shares his advice on building your contextual awareness of your organisation to be a more effective designer. Ryan also reveals the various factors that shaped him throughout his life and importance of self-work in continuously iterating your values and maintaining your wellbeing as a designer.
In this episode:

• When you’re thinking you’re not doing a good job
• Living your values authentically and iteratively
• Letting go of the idea that I have to invent everything
• The impact of your organisation's narrative
• Building your contextual awareness within your organisation
• Importance of self-work

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Kapitel

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Giving back to the community (00:02:03)

3. Thinking you're not doing a good job (00:07:44)

4. You don't have to re-invent everything (00:21:24)

5. The impact of your organisation's narrative (00:27:52)

6. Building your contextual awareness within your organisation (00:36:08)

7. Importance of self-work (00:41:19)

8. Perspectives , Objectives and Key Results (00:43:11)

9. Recap (00:48:57)

10. Ryan's recommended resources (00:53:01)

11. Finding Ryan online (00:56:01)