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More than a feeling: Ten design practices
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The expanding role of design in creating
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Good design is good business
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Design for value and growth in a
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Make design strength a C-level
metric that’s measured and managed
as rigorously as cost, quality, and time
Listen and iterate long after the initial
conceptual phase so as to improve
customer experiences postlaunch
Deploy your design experts within
small, widely distributed teams with
regular customer interaction
Good design arises instead as companies make design thinking and collaboration
a core capability. Here are three practices
that can help.
Designing beyond
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The premium for good design is increasing as digital blurs the lines between products, services, and
the places they’re consumed.
Designing digital
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Good design is good business
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John Maeda, global head of computational design and inclusion at Automattic
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Whenever someone has come to me asking for the silver bullet, I say there’s only a silver ray. And you have to know where
to point it. And you might get lucky.”
But good design doesn’t occur through “Steve Jobs–type moments” of blinding insight.
Designing blind
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Design for value and growth
in a new world
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The outperformance of design-led companies suggests that good design continues to be good business.
Design pays
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