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Collaboration: Trust or Control?

In the first Design Means Business installment, we addressed basic notions of collaboration and conflict resolution, because communications/software seldom manages and transmits information better than its producing team can. A team's ability to communicate, collaborate, and co-operate is one of the most significant determinants of end-user experience. Allegorically, band members don't... Read Full Design Means Business II Article »

In this article I'd like to tell you some of my insights about designing using grids, which is crucial for good design. In print and press all the information (graphics and text) have some logical layout, proper spacing, and all of that is formed into neat columns. While designing a website same rules apply and we have to remember to make our content easy to read and accessible for the users. That's where grids come to play - they help to make information look well organized and clean. First of all we should acknowledge how the websites are const... Read Full Designing & Thinking with Grids Article »

In this first Design Means Business installment, I intend to address the business community, primarily. Some UX and other design types will find it helpful, too, as this article series aims to improve communication and collaboration between design and business partners working on web-delivered software projects.

Context

"Problem, what problem?"

Web-based business software is, literally, the integration of a group of people's business, design, and technology capabilities. Yet specialists in these discipline... Read Full Design Means Business Article »