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I recently accepted a new position that’s more service design focused than traditional UX, though my title is still Experience Designer. My current role has me working on website projects, while the new one shifts my focus to employee, patient, and patient family experience in a nonprofit medical setting, specifically services and residential homes/schools for severely neurodivergent kids.

I’d love to connect with others working in service design or in nonprofit/healthcare experience roles. If that’s you, or if you have advice from navigating either space, I’d really appreciate hearing from you. Thanks!

Six years of craving Melissa King’s milk tea tiramisu from Top Chef, and I finally made it myself!

I’m not much of a coffee drinker, so this version was perfect for me. It’s lighter than a classic tiramisu, but still has that slightly bitter aftertaste I love in a good hot tea.

Recipe here if you want to try it: https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/hong-kong-milk-tea-tiramisu

A few notes from my first attempt: I skipped the individual cups and used a small loaf pan (instant gratification, ate it right away 🤣) plus a bigger pan I’m letting chill overnight, which I’m betting will taste even better tomorrow. Also didn’t have Madeira on hand, so I planned to sub kahlua… and then completely forgot to add it to the tea 🤷🏻‍♀️. Still delicious without it, but curious how it changes with the booze next time.

Have you tried this recipe? Or any other top chef dishes?

I’m facilitating a design thinking workshop with engineers in a few weeks. They’re part of an internal think tank, but the ideas coming out have been incremental at best. Safe. Predictable. Very ‘how do we improve what already exists’ rather than ‘what if we blew it up and started over.

My usual crowd is designers who are already primed to dream big. Engineers think in constraints by default, which is useful in their world and a ceiling in mine.

What activities, frameworks, or questions have you actually used to get non-designers out of optimization mode and into genuine blue-sky thinking? Specifically looking for things that work when the room is skeptical or stuck in feasibility before the idea is even formed.

I work as a UX Designer in the corporate world. We inherited a Figma DS file from a company we’ve been partnering with over the last year, and will continue to do so for the unforeseeable future. Quite frankly, the file is a hot mess so I’m starting over from scratch. There are already well established brand guidelines so I can’t just use Material Design or any other system to pull from.

What are the plugins, automations, AI flows, etc that you’ve found that makes the tedious parts of this faster?