Some of my thoughts on Strategy, which takes up about 40% of this designer's time.
http://blog.semanticfoundry.com/expertise/strategic-design/ http://blog.semanticfoundry.com/category/strategy/ ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel: +1.617.281.1281 | [email protected] aim: semanticwill gtalk: semanticwill twitter: semanticwill skype: semanticwill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:48 AM, mark schraad <[email protected]> wrote: > it's really pretty simple... its your plan, your methods and approach to > achieving the design goal. it can be as detailed or all encompassing as you > like. > > if your design strategy is a layer below and dependent upon the biz > strategy, then cool. that's pretty normal. in fact... that is why I say that > many many design decisions are bade by biz dev (not the legal paper pushers, > the idea folks)... in defining a biz and product strategy, biz dev so often > determine features and qualities that could otherwise be chosen later. > > Mark > > On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:42 AM, dave malouf wrote: > > I'm going to be overly simplistic for the moment b/c people are >> getting very heady (even for me). As a designer I think of strategy >> in two different ways. >> >> 1. Why? - The strategy conveys the why. Which in my mind relates to >> all goals for the project. >> >> 2. Vision - Strategic planning in the design process for me is the >> 100k view. What does this mean? >> a. It means you are looking at a much larger swath of the problem >> than you will probably directly address. >> b. You are looking through time beyond the normal horizon line if you >> were on the ground >> c. You are looking at the frameworks and not the details >> >> >> >> >> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >> Posted from the new ixda.org >> http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36819 >> >> >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >> To post to this list ....... [email protected] >> Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >> List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >> List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help >> > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
