{"id":1266,"date":"2016-01-07T21:23:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T05:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imagineave.com\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2016-01-07T21:47:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T05:47:52","slug":"fear-and-dread-of-showing-your-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"No Need to Fear Showing Your Work for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Obama.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Obama.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all have butterflies before showing our\u00a0design work to our\u00a0team or stakeholders for the first time. That said, I have learned the hard way that the earlier I get them involved the better. It becomes a team effort, everyone gets invested, and I avoid many potholes and embarrassing moments like the dreaded &#8220;But what about&#8230;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I try not to spend too much time\u00a0tucked away polishing my ideas but instead toss them out early when I&#8217;m not so attached to them. Discuss them while they&#8217;re &#8220;in the rough.&#8221; Then I can see if they stand up before ever moving a pixel.<\/p>\n<p>Bouncing\u00a0ideas off my teammates each day is my favorite part of work. It relieves so much pressure. We toss around thoughts\u00a0at\u00a0our desks or at lunch. And whenever possible I set meetings\u00a0with the stakeholders and just talk and sketch for 15 minutes. That gives all involved a huge amount of insight into the problems we&#8217;re trying to solve, promotes team ownership, and that group brainpower is inspirational. In fact, find your biggest critic in the company and get them involved day 1. It&#8217;s very rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>As Kenneth Blanchard wrote, &#8220;None of us are as smart as all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Inspired after reading this\u00a0article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/articles\/ux-deliverables-collaboration\/\">https:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/articles\/ux-deliverables-collaboration\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have butterflies before showing our\u00a0design work to our\u00a0team or stakeholders for the first time. That said, I have learned the hard way that the earlier I get them involved the better. It becomes a team effort, everyone gets invested, and I avoid many potholes and embarrassing moments like the dreaded &#8220;But what about&#8230;?&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}