Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals

Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals - Paperback

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Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals

Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals - Paperback

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Book Overview

by Dan Brown (Author)

WHAT IS THE ONE THING not taught in design school, but is an essential survival skill for practicing designers? Working with other people. And yet, in every project, collaboration with other people is often the most difficult part.


The increasing complexity of design projects, the greater reliance on remote team members, and the evolution of design techniques demands professionals who can cooperate effectively. Designing Together is a book for cultivating collaborative behaviors and dealing with the inevitable difficult conversations.

Designing Together features:
  • 28 collaboration techniques
  • 46 conflict management techniques
  • 31 difficult situation diagnoses
  • 17 designer personality traits

This book is for designers:
  • On teams large or small
  • Co-located, remote, or both
  • Working in multidisciplinary groups
  • Within an organization or consulting from outside

You'll also find sidebar contributions from David Belman (Threespot), Mandy Brown (Editorially, A Book Apart), Erika Hall (Mule Design Studio), Denise Jacobs (author), Jonathan Knoll (InfinityPlusOne), Marc Rettig (Fit Associates), and Jeanine Turner (Georgetown University).

Author Biography

Dan M. Brown is the author of Communicating Design (New Riders) and principal at EightShapes, LLC, a user
experience design firm based in Washington, D.C., whose clients include Yahoo!, Marriott International, and Cisco Systems.

Number of Pages: 288
Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.96 x 7.11 IN
Publication Date: June 14, 2013
ISBN9780321918635
Author Dan Brown
PublisherNew Riders Publishing
GenreBusiness, Arts, and Technology
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2013
LanguageENG- English
Pages288
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Dan Brown

Dan Brown is the author of eight #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the bestselling books of all time, as well as Origin, Inferno, The Lost Symbol, and Angels & Demons. His thrillers have captivated readers worldwide and been the subject of intellectual debate and speculation. He is also the author of the bestselling children's book Wild Symphony. Brown's novels are published in 56 languages internationally, with over 250 million copies in print.

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