What 6 emojis can teach you about translating your impact Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Raquel Tinoco: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-person-holding-a-championship-trophy-5286746/ “I am trying to show the value that I brought. But it seems I’m failing.” Cayenne is a senior designer with more than a decade of experience, but she had one specific problem: her best work is small. Sometimes, your best work isn’t part of a company-wide AI initiative with a $17M budget attached. Sometimes, it’s the “one quick thing” she got asked to do that turned into some of her best work. The key to translating that kind of impact isn’t to fudge the scale. It’s to talk about the problem in more detail. The ask sounds simple. The problem isn’t. In 2016, Meta (then Facebook) had a problem that would shape future social media interactions: people didn’t know how to react to a funeral announcement. Hitting “Like” on news that someone’s uncle died felt wrong.…