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The Engineering Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

This is an excerpt from from Kim Goodwin’s excellent Designing for the Digital Age. Try to speak with engineering management as well as the design engineer(s), if such a role exists; it’s seldom a good idea to involve the entire engineering team at this point. Programmers and engineers may initially be wary of designers.

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The General Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

This is an excerpt from from Kim Goodwin’s excellent Designing for the Digital Age. Note that it’s as important for in-house teams to ask most of these questions as it is for consultants; you may know one answer, but do you know this particular stakeholder’s answer? When is the version we’re designing going to be released?

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IA Summit 09 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

IA Summit 2009 Podcasts The IA Summit was held in Memphis, TN from March 20-22. See the Slideshare “IA Summit 2009&# :[link] page for up-to-the-minute lists of available presentations. – Karl Fast Do we have the conceptual tools necessary for designing with next-generation technologies? Is Interaction Necessary?

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The Marketing Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

This is an excerpt from from Kim Goodwin’s excellent Designing for the Digital Age. Most marketing people will immediately view designers as allies who will promote a customer-centric point of view. It is quite long, so we’ve broken it into several sections. Many thanks to Ms. Understanding the Business.

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IA Summit 09 - Day 1

Boxes and Arrows

IA Summit 2009 Podcasts The IA Summit was held in Memphis, TN from March 20-22. Andrew connects this understanding with real-life IA design issues such as Twitter’s syntax or Facebook’s Beacon and challenges us to think more carefully about how we shape context in the digital dimension. But do we love them? Download.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

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However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. It’s estimated that a loss of more than $2 trillion in world-wide economic growth occurred between the second quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.