Andrei, Right on. More specifically: take a look at the company's cashflow statements. If you can't describe how money gets into the 'Cash from Operations' - revenue - then you're working with a severe handicap as far as your understanding of the busi
2009/2/24 Andrei Herasimchuk <[email protected]> > > On Feb 23, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Sara Summers wrote: > > "If designers want to affect those decisions they must learn to look at >> the world from strategy executives' perspectives just as they look at the >> world from their users' perspectives when designing products for them." >> >> Your dead on with this concept, however I would love to hear more about >> how designers can gain executive perspectives. >> > > In a word: Money. > > Learn to look at your company's business in pure financial terms and it > will go a long way towards your understanding of how to work with your > executives. If you open your companies yearly financial reports and don't > "get" them, well, there's your first place to start to digging in. > > -- > Andrei Herasimchuk > > Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios > innovating the digital world > > e. [email protected] > c. +1 408 306 6422 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Steve 'Doc' Baty | Principal | Meld Consulting | P: +61 417 061 292 | E: [email protected] | Twitter: docbaty | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stevebaty Blog: http://meld.com.au/blog Contributor: Johnny Holland - johnnyholland.org Contributor: UXMatters - www.uxmatters.com UX Australia: 25-27 August, http://uxaustralia.com.au UX Book Club: http://uxbookclub.org/ - Read, discuss, connect. ________________________________________________________________ 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
