Inês Borges, Author at Angry Ventures

Design

Design thinking: burst your ideas out!

by Inês Borges / April 18, 2021

Reading Time: 7 minutes One of the most critical steps in design is to project ideas and solutions to a specific problem and then keep iterating it to perfect it to the maximum – something usually referred to as design thinking. You might be familiar with the term. Still, just in case, I’ll tell you more about how I usually brainstorm and structure my ideas into possible products/solutions with the methods…

Communication Learning

How to give and receive feedback

by Inês Borges / December 24, 2020

Reading Time: 6 minutes Feedback conveys information about behavior and aims to help point out its strengths and weaknesses. With the help of that evaluation, someone can understand better what is running on their work, what isn’t and how to improve it. It might be easy to take these criticisms too personally. When someone says that your work, in which you spent hours and days to no end on perfecting it, is trash…

Learning Opinion Principles Psychology Sociology

Finding your confidence: Impostor Syndrome and drowning in self-doubt

by Inês Borges / October 16, 2020

Reading Time: 6 minutes In today’s day and age, we live in a world filled with great societal expectations. Always moving at an accelerated pace that makes it hard to keep up with others. Have you ever felt like an impostor among others? Having the feeling you don’t deserve your own success and the accomplishments you did? Or perhaps you feel a tremendous fear and anxiety that your peers will find…

Communication Learning Opinion Shared Experiences

What to do when you love learning a bit of everything

by Inês Borges / July 30, 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutes A Jack-of-all-trades can be a Master of Some! Ever since we were kids, we were encouraged to learn a bit from every area from history to art, from science to maths. It’s like a brand new world that we explore for nine school years but, when the time comes to choose, we are faced with a myriad of possibilities regarding the many disparate fields and professions we…