Who Knows What? Understanding Stakeholders in Product Design
A practical guide for designers to identify and understand key stakeholders, their roles, and how they contribute to successful product development and collaboration.
Measuring Success
Success as a designer is measured through product impact, team collaboration, and personal growth in career, passion, and purpose.
Why Goal-Directed Design Outshines Continuous Discovery and Waterfall Methods
Discover why Goal-Directed Design (GDD) offers a flexible, user-centered framework that outshines others. Learn how GDD’s focus on user goals leads to more cohesive and meaningful products.
Conceptual Models describe how the product fits together
“Modern software processes have mastered the art of making, but not the art of understanding,” says Daniel O’Neil. To get at the understanding, he suggests using a conceptual model. The purpose of these is to help everyone on the product team understand the true intent behind the product. It supports requirements through communicating a conceptual…
Goal-Directed Design Process
Goal-Directed Design is a method of user-centered design that prioritizes looking for the goals of the end users and developing solutions to assist them in achieving those goals and overcoming the obstacles that block them. This is well documented in the books About Face and Designing for the Digital Age. Hugh Dubberly wrote a concise…
Luxury Beliefs and Practicing Observation
Explore Madsbjerg’s insights on unbiased observation and Henderson’s take on how ideologies, not luxury, define social classes in this thought-provoking article. Discover a fresh perspective on societal dynamics and class distinctions.
Building Organizational Trust
The relationship between the employee and their manager is one of the most important in the company. Trust produces a positive effect on problem solving, performance, citizenship behavior, cooperation, and communication. Yet what is trust and what ways can an organization build the trust necessary to realize these outcomes? Trust is a social phenomenon where…
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Six Source Model
Crucial Learning’s Six Sources of Influence Model