Tom Fishburne shares a pretty funny comic on how to give and receive feedback. While this is from a Marketing standpoint, we can (as designers) also learn from this....
Tucker Marion, Sebastian Fixson and Marc H. Meyer, writes a wonderful piece for the MIT Sloan Management Review on the challenges of Digital Design without good Design Management. Here is an excerpt:
So, what’s the problem? There are potentially two. First, because the technology makes...
When we iterated in a Design Process, it is actually a refinement activity where one evolution gives way to the next evolution. However when developing a design, especially when the design is complex, a simple iteration does not deal with the myriad of other...
You would probably have caught wind of Sir Jony Ive's rare interview with the London Evening Standard by now. I was not planning to blog about this as I figured that this would just become...
Lorna Ross, a design manager at Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation (That's a place I would love to visit!), shares with Helen Walters insights on running a small design team within a very large organization. Lots of great tips and insights filled with wisdom...
Harry Marks writes a very insightful piece on what Apple has done or will do for the computing industry in a Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud environment.
To some, it means Apple has locking you in to its “walled garden”. To others, the company is giving...
While preparing for our Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop next week, I stumbled over a nice little infographic by Prof. Ralf Beuker, that clearly spells out the relationship between Design, Design...
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It's official. With the backing of the Employment and Employability Institute (e2i), which focuses on improving skills, productivity and the...
I love it when someone writes a blog post for me. Well not officially anyway. You see I was going to write a blog post about Designing with your Clients. I was going to tell you, for example, how it is not that bad,...
When I talk to clients about budgets required to bring good design to the table, I get a lot of interesting looks and comments from them that imply one thing: they feel that design is a risky part of their business. You see, what business people...
I'm pretty conscious about my work rhythm these days. There is a lot to do in running a business and I welcome any way to do it more efficiently. Therefore, I found Y-Combinator advisor Paul Graham's blog post about a Manager's schedule vs....
The ever-witty Mike Monteiro, famous for his potty mouth, shared at a recent San Francisco Creative Mornings talk, the ups and downs of running a design business. For example, dealing with problems such as getting clients to pay up, getting comfortable with...
I'm sure all of you have noticed the huge flood of tablet computers in this year’s 2011 CES event in Las Vegas. Not only was it part of my dinner conversation some nights...
Good design and designers everywhere, just browse the Internet and you will see. From the comfort of your laptop you can consume the hottest cars, furniture, digital cameras, laptops or mobile phones etc. Sure there are some great designs, but the rest of the majority...
At the end of October 2008, I briefly suggested for designers to work with the business to make fewer products and focus their strategies during the recession. Here is a quote from HBR that sums-up this strategy:
Recent evidence suggests that the paradigm of...
Let the design team be the design experts. Your job is to be the business expert. Ask them how their design solutions meet your business goals. If you trust your design team, and they can explain how their recommendations map to those goals, you’re fine....
Dylan Tweney, a senior editor at Wired.com, wrote on The Atlantic:
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This awesome infographic (after the jump below), created by the team at Focus, predicts that Tablets (iPad et al.) will be the future of computing. According to the data, 14% of online shoppers intent to purchase an iPad in the next five months. ...
Source: Frog Design
I realized that a Design Manager is not an easy role to play in today's design industry. How a design team gels together is very much affected by how the "boss" manages them.
More often than not, I see...