Sarah Cooper is now a freelance designer and writes The Cooper Review, but before that, she worked as a designer at Yahoo! and Google. Clearly, the years she put in there have given her plenty of ammunition for tech satire, because at least three of her listicles are hilariously spot on. They include such gems as:
- Using a “sent from mobile” signature even from your laptop, to appear busier
- Answering unimportant emails or ones from important people right away
- The use of nerd language like “orthogonal”, TL;DR and other acronyms
- Encouraging everyone to take a step back
- Asking presenters to back up a slide
- Taking important phone calls in meetings
- The importance of making fun of product managers
All these tips and more, conveniently available in poster form: