Classroom, Leadership, Teacher Chryssa Gagosi Classroom, Leadership, Teacher Chryssa Gagosi

On the word “intuitive”

Every brief I have ever received contains the word “intuitive.” Sometimes it appears once, near the end, like a signature. Sometimes it appears four times in one paragraph, which I have learned to read as a cry for help. “We want it to be intuitive.” “Users should find it intuitive.” “Can we make the checkout a bit more intuitive?” Nobody has ever written, “We want it to be confusing.” That is the strange thing about the word. It sounds like a requirement, but it rules nothing out.

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Teachings, UX, Design Thinking, Critical Thinking, Leadership Chryssa Gagosi Teachings, UX, Design Thinking, Critical Thinking, Leadership Chryssa Gagosi

The moment I look for in every leadership workshop

The most resistant person in any workshop I have ever run has never been the most junior person in the room.

It is almost always the most senior position.

This is not because senior leaders are not intelligent. But because they have spent years being the person with answers, a workshop asks them, for a few hours, to be the person with questions. This is a very different posture. For some people, it is genuinely threatening.

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