[IxDA Discuss] Community design?

[Mark Schraad]

Learning to shout - and css is great, knowing how to conduct a meeting is etter.

If these are "your" meetings:

  Deciding who is in a meeting is critical.

  Determining the type of meeting is also important. Design session... or brainstorming... or buy in?
Most of the time if business is invloved I will have covered the critical isues with the primary decision makers and the meeting is about formalizing the decision to the team. If it is a presentation... that is a bit different. Each of these meeting types would bring a different approach.

  Meetings should have an introduction, aggenda, conclusions or summaries, and next step (this typically includes duty assignments).

It also sounds a lot likt\e you could benefit from a basic understanding of how designers think and how business people think... differnece and similarities. Roger Martin from Rotman School of Management has been writing quite a bit about this. Especially the validity (designers) vs reliability (business people) discourse. Designers must learn to speak the "board room" language.

Mark



 
On Thursday, December 28, 2006, at 12:38PM, "Sunandini Basu" <sunandinibasu at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi
>Just curious:
>In my company (an internet media company) design happens over a group
>session involving writers and business people, and of course, designers.
>Can good design really happen this way? Usually the designers (who are
>outnumbered and softer-spoken) get over-ruled by self-skilled content
>writers. I'm wondering whether to improve my shouting skills or work on my
>CSS?
>Cheers,
>Soo
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