We’re excited to announce that the Design Management Institute (DMI) has asked us to deliver a webinar on April 11th as part of their long-standing Design Leadership Speaker Series, sponsored by Microsoft. The Series “features leading thinkers in design and design management addressing topics of key importance, brought to you through Microsoft Live Meeting” (more at dmi.org). Our session will be based on our recent article “Calibrate Before You Collaborate: […]
Last month, Wiley-Blackwell published our latest article “Calibrate Before You Collaborate: 5 Questions to Guide Group Work” in the Design Management Institute’s DMI Review. In the article, we lay out five questions every team should explore at the start of a new work or project cycle. Like a creative or technical brief that defines what a team will do together, the questions play the important role of […]
It’s Monday morning and you’ve invited your team into the large conference room for the kickoff meeting of a new design project. Whether you work in a corporate environment driven by time-to-market pressure or in an agency environment driven by clients, kickoff meetings follow a common pattern. You outline the project and the creative opportunity. The account manager or project lead talks about timelines and […]