Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience - Softcover

Greever, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1491921560 ISBN 13: 9781491921562

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2015

Synopsis

Every designer has had to justify designs to non-designers, yet most lack the ability to explain themselves in a way that is compelling and fosters agreement. The ability to effectively articulate design decisions is critical to the success of a project, because the most articulate person often wins. This practical book provides principles, tactics, and actionable methods for talking about designs with executives, managers, developers, marketers, and other stakeholders who have influence over the project with the goal of winning them over and creating the best user experience.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Talking to people about your designs might seem like a basic skill, but it can be difficult to do efficiently and well. And, in many cases, how you communicate about your work with stakeholders, clients, and other non-designers is more critical than the designs themselves--simply because the most articulate person usually wins.

This practical guide focuses on principles, tactics, and actionable methods for presenting your designs. Whether you design UX, websites, or products, you'll learn how to win over anyone who has influence over the project--with the goal of creating the best experience for the end user.

• Walk through the process of preparing for and presenting your designs
• Understand stakeholder perspectives, and learn how to empathize with them
• Cultivate both implicit and explicit listening skills
• Learn tactics and formulas for expressing the most effective response to feedback
• Discover why the way you follow through is just as crucial as the meeting itself
• Educate your stakeholders by sharing the chapter from this book on how to work with designers
 

About the Author

Tom Greever has been designing websites and interfaces since 1999 in a variety of environments, including internal corporate design teams, as a freelancer, in the non-profit sector, and now as UX Director at Bitovi, with clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100s. Tom also blogs and speaks about UX and design at industry conferences.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1491921560
• ISBN 13: 9781491921562
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 278