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“Now, ask any designer and they’ll tell you that design is about communication.”

Posted by Scott Truitt on August 4th, 2007 @ 8:40 pm

On the imperative that designers must be not only engaged early in the process of creating products, but also in the development of the marketing / messaging and even the larger business strategy, Joshua Porter saidbest:

Now, ask any designer and they’ll tell you that design is about communication. But, how effective can designers be if they don’t have any seat the table where the communication is being decided?

Design can be so much more than a simple veneer. Done well, it can permeate both the product and the process with a unique and instantly identifiable personality. And that, in my opinion, is a worthwhile endeavor, as it brings a competitive advantage that very few can duplicate.

“Usability is not a strategy for design success.”On the role of usability as the most important issue when designing online, Todd Wilkens of Adaptive Path saidbest: Praising usability is like giving me a gold star for remembering that I have to put each leg in a different place in my pants to put them on. (Admittedly, I...
Redesigning Blogger It never occured to me, prior to attending last week's event, that all of our concentration (here, our loosely joined world of experience/interaction designers) is on the finished product. We (almost) never talk about the process, the path to greatness. To be sure, we have shared tastes and objective...
“If we trip, let us learn from it instead of trying to hide it; when we leap, let’s show others how to leap.”On the sincerity and authenticity that comes only from allowing anyone and everyone to speak on the behalf of the company at large, Rob (the "CEO" of Etsy) saidbest: As I see it, large corporations try to sanitize all their outgoing messages for the sake of keeping face. It is...
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