I'm Valeria – a senior designer, entrepreneur and feminist.

Designers are rightfully taught to empathise, request and adapt to critique and constantly look for ways to improve.

Then again, design education tends to miss preparing for the important opposite – things such as setting boundaries, delegating and scaling down work, and "cooling down" after energy-draining facilitation.

I believe there's a golden balance – a "50/50"

In the era of great resignation, quiet quitting and a surge of burn-outs, designers should take care of themselves, while resuming doing the important work, well enough.

You'll find me writing about the kind and critical design thinking, work-life balance, ethics in design, designOps and ways to lead and manage design work. Hope you enjoy it!

Happy to connect!

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