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Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience
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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
Peter Merholzpetermerholz.comdesign should address a mix of what historian John Heskett summarizes as “utility and significance.”
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
Good design at its core is about understanding people and their needs in order to create the best possible tools for them. I’m drawn to design for a lot of the same reasons that I’m drawn to management—it feels like a deeply human endeavor to empower others.
Julie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
by day he’s a product designer at IDEO, working to bring wonder into everyday experiences like driving, shopping for groceries, and riding the bus to school.
Ingrid Fetell Lee • Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness
User-centered design is about creating systems that are intuitive, inevitable, and quite natural.
Debbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
Visual design includes composition, typography, and how the visual brand is expressed.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
this “distributed cognition.” Business people call it “design thinking.” Whatever you call it, it works!