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Design Defined

In the first Design Means Business installment, we addressed basic conflict resolution, as a team's communications-software product can not reasonably be expected to exceed the communication abilities of the team itself. A teams ability to communicate, collaborate, and co-operate is one of the most significant determinants of end-user experience. Put another way, band members don't always have to love each... Read Full Design Means Business II 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 »

Web Application Success Recipes

When we first launch in to a great new venture, interest or passion, a common impulse is to put all of our best ideas in to it. Well, the ones we think are best, at least, often in our naiveté. What's true for my eldest sisters lemon squares is also true for many software projects: a good recipe needs no improvement. At least not until it can be executed with consistency. Assuming, of course, you have a recipe. Same applies to music. I got my first toy drum set at age 7, and first real (Ludwig) ... Read Full Applying Successful Recipes Article »

Are the means and interests of design strategy and business management inherently at odds with each other? If so, then why do they need each other so much? As in most of life this far from the sun: paradoc reigns. Let's look at the vinegar and oil relationship between practices of design strategy and business, and see if we can make a little dressing from it. Almost as soon as I'd first landed a gig in a web group at... Read Full Strategy vs. Management? Article »

And the Designers Who Don't Love Them

Some psychologists have said that fathers and sons are in competition, in a sense, because both are in love with the same woman. Oedipus thought so. Electra, too, as she assumed the female equivalent of Oedipus' complex. For our part, however, can designers and their managers have a similar sort of problem in their relationship? To a greater degree than for other professions, designers and the managers who direct them share a love of strategic de... Read Full Managers Who Love Design… Article »