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Emerging role in design orgs: The Super Senior Individual Contributor (Principal Designer, Design Architect)
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The Vignelli Canon
The Vignelli Canon outlines fundamental design principles, emphasizing semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics, along with the importance of discipline, appropriateness, and visual power for effective and timeless design practices.
rit.eduChange by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
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The first school is represented by “classic designers,” such as my friends Dieter Rams and Kenji Ekuan, the late Ettore Sottsass, Jr., Mario Bellini, and Jonathan Ives. These designers can run their own studios or be corporate stars. Ten or fifteen years ago, I would have included myself in this group. This school’s approach to design is both
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Amber command and control becomes Orange predict and control. To innovate more and faster than others, it becomes a competitive advantage to tap into the intelligence of many brains in the organization.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Why does design need to be in the boardroom when it can occasionally run the boardroom? Why aren’t there at least a few more designers running Fortune 500 companies? I don’t have an answer for that, but I do know a couple things: I think of myself maybe as a designer, but I’m not a designer the way most of you are, but I designed our business... See more
Navigating the intersection of design and business: a conversation with Airbnb’s Brian Chesky | Figma Blog
The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design
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