Tending the garden: Headspace team culture
summary
Headspace Product Design claims it keeps the team mindful and productive by mandating 15‑minute daily meditation across the company and scheduling MinDays: every second Friday off with alternating no‑meeting Fridays. Tools in use include Figma/FigJam, Mirror, usertesting, Google Trends, App Annie, app‑store reviews, Loom and Bonusly. Rituals and exercises — 20/20 (20 slides in 20 seconds), a license‑to‑dream workshop, and a Joey plugin that presets files for exploration — generate shareable artifacts and measurable changes in collaboration and output.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:40It’s been a year
- 2:01Headspace
- 3:50How does Headspace Product Design cultivate…
- 5:40Learning & unlearning
- 8:50Make space for PLAY
- 10:25License to dream
- 13:52Be kind to your mind
- 15:52Ensure team well-being
- 17:37Work-life
- 22:44Courageous heart
- 23:57Nonjudgment
- 26:07Practice Gratitude
- 27:35Celebrate others
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