How Designers Can Stop Being Ignored By Executives - Jeffrey Greene, NinePatch

<p><strong>About Jeffrey Greene</strong><br>Jeffrey Greene is the Director of Product and Design at NinePatch. He has been working in the design space since 2006 and held roles such as Senior User Experience Designer at Quantros and Director Of Product Design at Stella Technology. He holds a Master’s degree in architecture from Harvard but didn’t work in architecture. Outside the office, Jeffrey enjoys reading books that expose people’s diverse life experiences from notable activists such as bell hooks, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. </p><p><strong>Links We Mentioned: </strong><br>The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi <br>Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996 <br>In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Elegance-Ideas-Something-Missing/dp/0385526504 </p><p><strong>SHOW NOTES:</strong><br>00:00 | Who is Jeffrey Greene<br>00:31 | How to get leadership to hear you out<br>03:54 | Being heard as a designer <br>08:35 | How to translate a pitch deck into reality<br>14:55 | When things don’t go as planned (technical debt)<br>19:01 | Why push design work to the end <br>22:56 | Mental models are so underrated  <br>24:35 | Complex problems need simple solutions<br>26:47 | Method acting for product managers: why it works <br>28:45 | Saying no to yourself<br>31:22 | The joy of prototyping<br>32:29 | Personal fireside questions: street food pub, leaving architecture, not having a “real job”...</p><p><strong>QUOTES:</strong><br>[02:17] “You have to try and get on leadership’s radar somehow. And hopefully, if you have good ideas, you just try and figure out a way to get those heard in any venue possible. Hopefully, there's at least one executive out there who's open to hearing things.”</p><p>[25:08] “The more complex the problem, the simpler the solution has to be. You can't chase complexity with compl