Changing Our Thinking About Design discusses the constantly change web design industry, and how we can change our thinking to stay on top.
The article I am talking about is Here and I found it because of these guys
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26. Oct, 2009
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A local university here in Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, has incorporated this idea of design thinking into their MBA program – http://weatherhead.case.edu/initiatives/manage-by-designing ; http://design.case.edu/
Very cool concept for designers to expand their knowledge of business, and for non-designers to integrate design thinking into today’s business culture.
@Dan Collins
Very Cool man thanks for that link
It’s a great post, so inspirational.
Thanks to share it!
Hear, Hear. I have strived to focus on what the best solution is for each project and stay away from what might just look good. There are many times when the best look is not the solution.
The deal a day sites perform worse when the design is on point. We can see that if the design is too good the user doesn’t think they are getting the best deal.
There is a fine line between beautiful design and perfect function. Refining this ability is key your future as a web professional.
Lastly, nearly anyone can make something look pretty, but it takes true creative power to bring good design on top of well thought out functionality and usability.
Great video and I agree very much that with the tools and knowledge available to a designer / coder, it’s smart for them to portrait a unified view of the web entity and product. It will be their vision and expertise that should seamlessly provide an art like map navigating us around the madness that we absorb as information visually. Lots to absorb and rebound here, but great ideas/
Dwyndal
I gotta tip a little coffee out for my homies, Geocities.
Very interesting. I’ve been saying it a while, design just about the aesthetics – its about solutions. I really dig that you used term “product design”, cause YES – that is exactly what it is.
WoW
Awesome post. Very inspiring. this lecture on video change the thinking about design. Thanks for sharing this nice post.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” — Charles Darwin
That being said, the more any number of people do one particular thing numerous times, the more it becomes less unique. That’s also how evolution happens, but what I would not like to see is every firm pitching “You need a Web application” to companies. We already sell customers too much of what they don’t need. Let’s give them something that will work, and will work because of some simple changes (through this window of design). Through experience, sometimes it’s the simplest of things that lead to the best results. Strong and valid points all around. Very good talk.
I think im gonna do a segment on my show about this… I think you hit the nail on the head when you talked about being a designer alone isnt much of a job trait. You do have to have multiple hats as a designer. To be able to talk to programmers about how to get your design to life is one hat. Talking to sales people about getting good revenue from your design is another hat. Sure, if you are in the business for years and have a strong design portfolio, you can get away with JUST doing design. But even I have to program and talk to people about “call to actions.” We need to be well rounded people. If not, we aren’t progressing.