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Cover for "Success by Design: The Essential Business Reference for Designers" Hot off the presses, I thought I'd share with you the cover for my next book, Success by Design: The Essential Business Reference for Designers.* I'm currently knee-deep in designing the 325-page book, from the cover (which you can see… |
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Join Me for HOW’s Creative Bootcamp Webcast Series Pt. 3: "Collaborative Design Practices" The third webcast in my series for HOW is coming up this Thursday, November 17th. If you've wondered how you can bring the thinking from Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills into your team brainstorming practice, this… |
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Thinking Outside the Elephant: Part 2 This is the second part of a recap that was written over 51 hours at the HOW Interactive Design Conference, then delivered to attendees as a 45-minute closing talk. Read the first part here. Now, for those of you that… |
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Thinking Outside the Elephant: Part 1 This is the first part of a recap that was written over 51 hours at the HOW Interactive Design Conference, then delivered to attendees as a 45-minute closing talk. The second part will appear on Tuesday. During the first day… |
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Slides from "Information Architecture: Making Information Accessible and Useful" The above slides are from a talk I just gave at the HOW Interactive Conference in San Francisco on November 2nd, entitled "Information Architecture: Making Information More Accessible and Useful." The talk was about how designers can help people make … |
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Join Me for HOW’s Creative Bootcamp Webcast Series Pt. 2: "Designing Faster by Timeboxing" The second webcast in my series for HOW is coming up next week, on Thursday, October 27th. If you haven't utilized the methods in my book Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills, this is a great opportunity… |
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The Tipsy Triangle of Software Startupdom In talking with entrepreneurs of many stripes over the past year, I've heard the following hypnotic refrain repeated over and over again: "If we design a beautiful user experience, we've got what we need to launch a successful business." Whether… |
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This Thursday, Join Me for HOW’s Creative Bootcamp Webcast Series Hi. I'll be hosting a 3-part webcast series before/after HOW's upcoming Interactive Design Conference, focused on sharing ways that designers can more effectively brainstorm and collaborate in teams. If you haven't utilized the methods in my book Creative Workshop: 80… |
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The Building Blocks of Design Studio Culture: Space In previous posts, I discussed the building blocks that comprise studio culture, and the first "hard" building block, the type of work you're seeking to fulfill. But once you know what kind of work you’d like to create, you’ll need… |
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Join Me at the HOW Interactive Design Conference How can today's designers learn to design for interactive? What books they should read, what websites they should visit, what tools they need to learn how to use, and what technologies are most important for landing that next big job?… |
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ChangeOrder Moves to California After 10 years living in the Pacific Northwest, Mary and I have decided to move to the sunnier climes of Oakland, California. I will continue to be a Principal Designer at frog, now working out of the San Francisco studio.… |
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How to Conduct Post-Mortem Project Evaluations This is an extensive rewrite of a previous ChangeOrder post for my next book Design Business from A to Z—so much so I'm reposting it! The website went live last week, and the entire staff is throwing a party to… |
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Making Clients Part of the Design Process This weekend, I participated in HOW Design Live, a U.S.-based conference intended to help designers, in-house design managers, and creative freelancers gain the information and inspiration they need to succeed with their design work. One of my contributions to the… |
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Got a Startup Idea? Apply to The Designer Fund I'm happy to announce that in the coming months, I'll be increasingly involved in a new nonprofit called The Designer Fund. This is a community of designers that will be investing in design founders through education, angel funding, and access… |
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The Building Blocks of Design Studio Culture: Types of Work Type of work is one of the largest cultural building block of any studio, as the majority of the time in any studio is spent immersed in the work. What follows are the questions you should be asking yourself before… |
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The Building Blocks of Design Studio Culture Studio culture is everything people in a design studio do that supports the process of making work happen. Culture can create joy, while process can facilitate profit. A studio’s culture is not created solely by the business owner. It is… |
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When Should I Decline Client Work? The failure most of us frequently face in the business of design? The failure to recognize that a client project is something you should decline. Here are common situations where working designers fail to decline an opportunity that may be… |
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People Don’t Pay Much for Umbrellas Working in New York City more than a decade ago, I was always charmed by how the cost of umbrellas would magically increase during a downpour. Those umbrellas never lasted. They just worked until you reached where you needed to… |
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