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Apr 5, 2021

Crushing Constraints as a Marginalized Group — Part III

The path forward If you’re reading this, you’ve made it to the final installment of the Crushing Constraints series. We explored a bit of the psychology that affects us as individuals, creating constraints for our potential in part I. Part II centered around the external elements that perpetuate the difficulties…

Design

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Crushing Constraints as a Marginalized Group — Part III
Crushing Constraints as a Marginalized Group — Part III
Design

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Apr 5, 2021

Crushing Constraints as a Marginalized Group — Part II

The external forces working against us In part I of Crushing Constraints as a Marginalized Group, I spoke to the internal factors preventing many of us from reaching our potential: 1) our relationship with ourselves and 2) our ability to make adaptive changes. You can read part I here. Navigating…

Design

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Crushing Constraints as a Marginalized Group — Part II
Crushing Constraints as a Marginalized Group — Part II
Design

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Apr 5, 2021

Crushing Contraints as a Marginalized Group — Part I

The uphill battle against ourselves and the world Constraints are not unfamiliar to anyone working in the product space. Designers may be limited by time and budget to conduct research and design exploration. Product managers are all too familiar with the limitations set by the business goals and developers can…

Career Advice

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Crushing Contraints as a Marginalized Group — Part I
Crushing Contraints as a Marginalized Group — Part I
Career Advice

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Dec 16, 2020

DWB: Designing While Black

Navigating my career as a woman of color For most of my career, I can recall looking around the conference table and seeing no one that looks like me. Jovial coworkers chat about shows like ‘This is Us’ or old ‘Friends’ episodes left me excluded. And then there’s music. I…

Design

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DWB: Designing While Black
DWB: Designing While Black
Design

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Dec 3, 2020

Worth it? Design Dept.’s Resilient Leadership Workshop

A peek inside Mia Blume’s 4-hour workshop If you haven’t guessed by now, I do a lot of professional development. Maybe too much…. look, that’s a future Medium article. For now, I’ll stick to the “script” and share a little about Design Dept.’s Resilient Leadership Workshop. What/Who is Design Dept.? I stumbled across this…

Leadership Development

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Worth it? Design Dept.’s Resilient Leadership Workshop
Worth it? Design Dept.’s Resilient Leadership Workshop
Leadership Development

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Dec 2, 2020

Mentorship vs Sponsorship

What’s the difference & why you need both I’m a huge advocate for mentorship. I created Break the Prototype, a free mentorship platform for BIPOC in tech. As a woman of color, I know all too well how hard it is to receive the same opportunities as our counterparts. 42%…

Mentorship

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Mentorship vs Sponsorship
Mentorship vs Sponsorship
Mentorship

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Nov 24, 2020

Learning the Essentials of Business — Part II

Prototyping with numbers & the business value of design Back for more business basics? Good! To be honest, it surprised me how geeked I was learning about business models. 🤓 The crew at Designer Fund made the experience fun and engaging. The Business Essentials for Designers workshop didn’t disappoint. In…

Business

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Learning the Essentials of Business — Part II
Learning the Essentials of Business — Part II
Business

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Nov 24, 2020

Learning the Essentials of Business - Part I

My experience attending Designer Fund’s Workshop I hate math. Wait, let me rephrase. I REALLY hate math. There’s nothing about it that I like. I was an English & Social Studies girl, still am. I knew my junior year of high school I’d be a designer. All else became irrelevant…

Business

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Learning the Essentials of Business - Part I
Learning the Essentials of Business - Part I
Business

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Oct 2, 2020

Field Notes: My First 90 Days as a Product Designer

Remote Onboarding, Meeting the Crew, & Imposter Syndrome — 90 days sounds like a lot and a little at the same time, doesn’t it? Things have been moving nonstop since I joined Dialexa, a Dallas-based tech consultancy. It seems like I went from daydreaming to landing my product design role overnight. I gotta say, I love every minute of…

Product Design

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Field Notes: My First 90 Days as a Product Designer
Field Notes: My First 90 Days as a Product Designer
Product Design

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Sep 17, 2020

Achievement Unlocked: Joining the Medium League

At this point it’s safe to say 2020 has been a trip, right? A whole WTF, cancel it yesterday, put it in the trash, fast forward to 2021 type of year. I expected it to be, not because of a worldwide pandemic, but because my status quo wasn’t cutting it…

Career Advice

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Achievement Unlocked: Joining the Medium League
Achievement Unlocked: Joining the Medium League
Career Advice

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Shara Rosenbalm

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Digital product designer at Dialexa, advocate for BIPOC, speaker, and hustler.

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