A few years ago, I attended a user experience design boot camp. That course taught me that UX is so much more than designing visuals for apps and websites. UX designers conduct a lot of user research to determine how an app should function, implementing what they call a “human-centered approach” to their decision making; that is, an approach that ensures the final product serves the user.
We really don’t like the word “hustle” over here at Artist’s Strategy. To us, it implies there’s a desperate, disorganized approach to our work, which there doesn’t need to be. Part of the idea of the “hustle” of it all is to “create your own work”. Well, don’t. More specifically, don’t just create your own work. Create your own work with strategic purpose.
Well…here we are. Our worst nightmare — another email on COVID-19 😉 Millions of people all over the world are suffering and freelance artists, in particular, seem to be in a state of freefall. While I do not want to seize the moment as a “told you so”, we do need to take a hard look at the realities of what a crisis like this does to those of us who are woefully unprepared and what we can do in the immediate to take care of ourselves.
“Are you really that busy?” People have asked me this question for years and… Yes. Yes, I am. Aren’t you??When I was younger, I was overly stressed because I didn’t have time to meet these assumed social demands with friends and others while juggling at least 7 jobs on top of growing my creative business. I often pulled 16 hour days and always felt like I could be doing more.
What can we do as lighting professionals to save lives in an emergency situation?
It is with the heaviest of hearts that I write the hardest article I have ever written. I would much rather write an opinion piece on my feelings about rainbow chases and load-in puppy play days.
As a stage manager who relocated overseas last year for a startup, I was surprised at the many different ways that people used email. Sure, we were placed together from all parts of the world from different cultures, backgrounds and languages, but I thought that email etiquette was understood globally……. I was wrong. In an effort to corral the online craziness and misinterpretation across the internet channels in an already stressful theatre opening, I went online to gather a few rules to send to the team.
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