Layoff Support, Leadership, Emotional Dynamics and more
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Good morning. We have come a long way from the great silent resignation in 2022 to layoff blood bath this year. Tech layoffs in 2023 are already one-third of last year’s number (97,171) and it’s only January. The new year hasn’t been kind and as on today in 2023, 219 tech companies have laid off a total of 68149 employees. Important aspect is to focus on coming together, re-skilling and up-skilling ourself. This will help us stay updated, informed and to find new opportunities in the market.
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Enjoy this weeks curated read.
Mayur Chaudhary, Founder RethinkingUX
💎 Handpicked Curated reads - Week of 29th Jan 2023👨⚖️ From empathy to self awareness, what makes a great design leader?
One of the most important skills for a design leader at that level is understanding the language of business, says Future London Academy. The executive school defines this as not only knowledge of how your company operates and makes money, and how design contributes to this growth, but an ability to use relevant metrics – “like ROI, LTV, CAC, TAM, SAM, EBITDA” – to communicate your design strategy and discuss the progress. Read more…
🧘♂️ Managing Your Team’s Emotional Dynamic
Collective emotion, when a group of people shares an emotion, is often stronger than a single individual feeling that same emotion alone. So, how can leaders manage emotions, particularly negative ones, from taking over a team? Four strategies from psychology — situation modification, shifting attention or creating distraction, reappraisal, and response modulation — can help bring down the temperature. Read more…
🦸♂️ 4 expensive psychological tricks retailers use that I've learned to decode
There's an entire industry built around getting us to spend money, even when we don't intend to. The solution? Learn the psychological principles driving these marketing strategies and beat them at their own game. Here are four psychological principles you can use to cut back on needless spending. Read more…
🌟 Product Reviews And Ratings UX: A Designer’s Guid
95% of users rely on reviews to make their decisions and learn more about how well a product fits their needs. Unfortunately, too often, the way we design reviews and ratings UX confuses and frustrates users, rather than helps them. Let’s fix that. How do we design effective reviews and ratings? With a distribution chart, decimal scores, tags, recommendation score and unedited product photos. Read more…
🎯 Your key to success in 2023, says attention expert: The difference between ‘habits’ and ‘routines’
being able to harness your attention is “the most important skill of the century,” but it’s not something we formally learn — which is also what makes it so crucial to understand better. The definition of a habit is the impulse to do a behaviour with little or no conscious thought but most of the things that people want to turn into a habit will never be a habit. Read more…
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