Adam Zeiner
@dezein
a persistently curious generalist (parading as a strategic designer, facilitator, and organizer) attempting to wrangle complexity
Adam Zeiner
dezein.info
Many business leaders don’t know how to select the ecosystems, or how to identify those opportunities with the highest value. Shaping the ecosystem strategy requires focused, design-led work in three areas:
Istvan Rab • A design-led approach to embracing an ecosystem strategy
Before we can identify the right UX success, problem-value, and progress metrics, we must know what our key UX outcomes are. And the only way to know what our UX outcomes are is to spend serious time learning about our users and their challenges.
Jared Spool • Your Necessary First Step to Creating Powerful UX Metrics
‘Systems’ and ‘systemic’ have always been tricky words, as they mean different things to different people. Some people immediately think of technical systems (like airport control), some social systems (like a family unit), some natural systems (like a forest), and some dynamic systems (like a multiple cause diagram for obesity). In my last job, ‘s... See more
Cat Drew • Developing our new Systemic Design Framework
First off, we need to stop thinking about systems maps as deliverables. They’re research tools — stepping stones on our path to understanding complex problems.
Ryan Mohr • Making systems more approachable
This post is meant to be a foundational building block for further thinking on emerging standards in the shape of design organizations.
Peter Merholz • The Emerging Shape of Design Orgs
systems thinking and
Pace Layers help visualize, distinguish, and discuss different kinds of work and teams within an organization. Here, I bring together a bunch of great thinking into a single construct.
Clay Parker Jones • Pace Layers for Organization
Don't Fight the System - Change the Rules and the System Will Change Itself! - The Systems Thinker
Robert S. Graythesystemsthinker.com
System Change and
Tactics, on the other hand, are easy to see – this the work we do with our hands. This is the craftsmanship that goes into the visible aspects of a product. This is your typefaces, illustrations, colors, whitespace, and rounded corners.