52 // The Most Important Soft Skills for Designers with Dillon Winspear

Dillon Winspear is an experienced UX Designer with a background in marketing and advertising. After 3 startups, Dillon moved into a corporate role with Domo, a business intelligence platform, where he leads a team of UX Designers on their Explorer portfolio. Dillon is also the host of the Designed Today Podcast, where he shares insights he’s gathered throughout his career and shares them with any designer looking to up their game. His guests have ranged from entry-level designers sharing their experiences, to experienced experts. Today we talk all about the role of soft skills in the work of designers, including:👉 An overview of the discipline of UX and its evolution as a field👉 The role of soft skills in both getting and succeeding in your design job👉 How to become aware of your opportunities for soft skills to work on👉 Dillon’s take on the most important soft skills for designersResources:👉 Dillon’s podcast: Designed Today 👉 Soft Skills Self Assessment 👉 The Soft Skills Disconnect (Research)Support the show

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The Learning Experience Leader Podcast is a project devoted to design, leadership, and the psychology of learning. The aim of the show is to help you expand your perspective of learning design through conversations with innovative professionals and scholars across the world. Every other week a different practitioner or researcher shares insights from their work and experience to bring a more holistic view on how learning happens and what we can do to create amazing learning experiences through design and leadership. If you are interested in how people learn and how you can be more effective in helping others grow and develop, then this podcast is for you.