Is your organization design ready?

It is not enough to design a system; your organization must also be able to hear it and act on it for it to work. Check out this checklist to see if your organization is design ready. Who is experiencing the pain of your current design, and who is listening to suggestions for improvement?

To avoid feature bloat and ruining the core experience, is your organization capable of sorting through a flood of design ideas and synthesizing and evaluating them holistically? Do you have the development talent and leadership to implement a good design that includes evaluating visual design, usability, and design strategy from an objective and l... See more

Your organization may not be ready for design, good or bad. Design-aware employees can organize brown-bag lunches and evangelize at the water cooler. Your organization will remain design-resistant unless its leaders think in a goal-directed way about its users (and customers). Consider reading some of the fundamental design books if you're a leader... See more