Tags: design organizations
Tags: design organizations
Drivers & Putters
Posted Sunday September 10, 2006, 11:16 am, Over one day old at Functioning Form: Interface Design
Just in case you missed it, take a few minutes to read Jim Leftwich?s discussion of drivers and putters in Design Futures Part 4 :?[Driving is] necessary to drive far from current feature-bloated or tired models and make bold innovative leaps.
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Design Group Growth Paths
Posted Friday August 4, 2006, 11:21 am, Over one day old at Functioning Form: Interface Design
Though it?s hard for any design organization to let go of their senior talent if they choose to migrate to other groups, the benefit lies in closer ties between the design group and the company?s other business and strategic functions.
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Product Leads & Strategic Designers
Posted Tuesday August 1, 2006, 11:14 am, Over one day old at Functioning Form: Interface Design
In Design Group Organization I outlined the structural relationship between Product Leads (designers responsible for a specific business unit?s product designs) and Strategic Designers (designers who lead the integration of corporate strategy and product concepts) within a large design team.
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Design Group Organization
Posted Wednesday July 26, 2006, 10:40 am, Over one day old at Functioning Form: Interface Design
In particular: product design, strategic design, and design management. For these reasons and more strategic designers in this model are shared resources: they work with teams to conceptualize goals and product directions then reduce their involvement during the development phase of a project.
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Design Research Conversation: Part 2
Posted Thursday July 6, 2006, 11:20 am, Over one day old at Functioning Form: Interface Design
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Design Research: A Conversation with Steve Portigal
Posted Tuesday July 4, 2006, 11:29 am, Over one day old at Functioning Form: Interface Design
To help me work through some recent thoughts I?ve had about Design Research, I asked Steve Portigal -founder of Portigal Consulting and all around bright guy- to talk about context within digital products and the connection between ethnographic research and design.
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Orbiting the Giant Hairball
Posted Saturday June 3, 2006, 11:57 am, Over one day old at Functioning Form: Interface Design
MacKenzie charts his thirty years at Hallmark Cards with landmarks that helped him navigate a corporate structure ill suited for members of the creative class. It is not the business of authority figures to validate genius, because genius threatens authority.
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