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Too many meetings will (slowly) kill you

The inevitability of online meetings and how it affects the way designers work.

Fedora Devena
UX Collective
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6 min readSep 24, 2021
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I bet I am not the only one who feels that working from home (WFH) is more exhausting than working from the office (WFO). Of course, I can’t deny the fact that it is more productive, more efficient, more effective, and it saves so much time in between. Usually, I would have my laptop ready on my bedside so that I can wake up 5 mins before my meeting, freshen up a bit, and directly take my laptop and that’s it. Isn’t it the kind of life that you would wish before the whole WFH started?

I have been on this “lifestyle” for about 20 months now, juggling between meetings, to-dos, deadlines, volunteer works, and so on. The more I’m on it, the more I think how much this lifestyle has consumed me, starting from the outside then slowly figuring its way inside. It started as an excitement — transforming everything online and using multiple tools (miro, mural.co, video call apps, snap camera, sli.do, mentimeter, and others) then slowly turning into the nightmare of back pain and love-hate relationship with your gadgets.

As product designers, we all know that we need some dedicated, uninterrupted time to work. Not only to open Figma and start crafting…

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Written by Fedora Devena

Product Designer | Thinker | Travel Photographer. Currently improving @ Booking.com ✈️.

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