Adam Zeiner
@dezein
a persistently curious generalist (parading as a strategic designer, facilitator, and organizer) attempting to wrangle complexity
Adam Zeiner
dezein.info
I like the concepts “strategy” and “tactics” to capture what these two sides of design are about. As far as I can tell this appears to be the choice of words that professional designers and design leaders use.
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş • Strategy and Tactics in Design
Systems thinking enables us to engage complex problems more effectively, steering us away from short-sighted solutions that may work in the short-term but ultimately backfire and make things worse in the long run.
Ryan Mohr • Making systems more approachable
"Design" means one thing to a graphic designer, another thing to an engineer, and something else to a business consultant. Even within the design discipline, a Silicon Valley manager and a Danish joiner are unlikely to be imagining the same thing as they both talk about design.
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş • Strategy and Tactics in Design
The creation and management of boundary objects is key in developing and maintaining coherence across a set of intersecting but necessarily incomplete perspectives.
Luke Craven • #29: On boundary objects
Historically, men predominantly led and populated armies, lending not only an overtly military language to business but also a masculine one, impacting not only the words of business but also its culture. The structure favored men...
Aric Wood • The Organization as a Machine: An Outdated Concept - XPLANE | Organizational Change Management Consulting
Design organizations are increasingly expected to contribute to product strategy, but these structures support little more than product delivery. If the team is asked to develop a vision for the future product experience 2-3 years out, how do they get it done?
Peter Merholz • Creative and Strategic Leadership in Design Orgs—Super-Senior ICs and the Shadow Strategy Team (3rd in a series on Emerging Shape of Design Orgs), Peter Merholz
Kristin Taylor, Blog: The waves of civic tech
kristinkristin.comWe started thinking about different kinds of subject and object engagements that involved maybe multiple subjects, multiple objects, unintended engagements, or engagements that happen without either the user or the artifact having awareness of that engagement. What are the different permutations that are possible?
Stevie Watts • From 1:1 to 1:Many—Humans, Artefacts, & Ecosystems Thinking
System design and