Scott Witthoft

Jan 24

What are you beginning?

A different way I’ve encountered that question is: How are you a beginner today? That’s paraphrased from a conversation just moments ago with a great designer friend (Emily Callaghan) who asked it of me. I know it’s a designer’s skill to ask questions when in design mode, but isn’t it…

Language

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Language

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Jan 12

My Advice: Pace Yourself

Measure Your Body with Scott Witthoft "Oh, I know how far it is from here to that tree because I can pace it..."bestadvice.show Giving advice is a tricky act. I try to avoid it as often as I can, and as often as I feel the words start to formulate in my head. Nope. Stop it. Giving feedback is a different deal. That takes skill and practice, especially in order to keep it…

Self Improvement

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Self Improvement

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·Updated Dec 13, 2022

Get curious to gauge good enough

Exploring new ideas is a craft. Whether you’re a designer creating a new product, a chef testing a new recipe, or an entrepreneur starting a new business, a prototype is a tool that helps you uncover what your idea might be missing and provides hints about what to do next. …

Product Design

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Product Design

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Dec 9, 2022

Prototyping Q&A with Gray Garmon

This extended question-and-answer content comes from an on-going experiment I started while writing a recent book about prototyping. That experiment involved asking the same specific questions about prototyping of people I know or know of, admire, wondered about, and otherwise respect. …

Prototyping

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Prototyping

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Nov 28, 2022

Make Prototyping Part of Your Personal Practice

Whether you’re a designer creating a new product, a chef testing a new recipe, or an entrepreneur starting a new business, a prototype is a tool that helps you uncover what your idea might be missing and provides hints about what to do next. As part of a research prototype…

Entrepreneurship

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Make Prototyping Part of Your Personal Practice

Entrepreneurship

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Nov 20, 2022

Prototyping Q&A with Eric Parker

Entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurship

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Nov 12, 2022

Prototyping at home and at work

How do you test a new idea to see if it works? You prototype it. …

Prototyping

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Prototyping

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Nov 12, 2022

Prototyping Q&A with Jennifer López

Prototyping

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Prototyping

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Nov 2, 2022

Prototyping Q&A with Maryanna Rogers

This extended question-and-answer content comes from an on-going experiment I started while writing a recent book about prototyping. The experiment involved asking the same specific questions about prototyping of people I know or know of, admire, wondered about, and otherwise respect. …

Prototyping

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Prototyping

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Published in Bootcamp

·Nov 2, 2022

Align your definitions before a start-to-finish design

Design Research

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Align your definitions before a start-to-finish design

Design Research

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