[IxDA Discuss] Ideal Design Studio

[Mark Schraad]

I have seen designers go to the Principle Design role... roughly the  
equivalent of an art director, but usually without direct managerial  
responsibility, for those who want to focus purely on the work. For  
the life of me I don't understand this - but to each his/her own. The  
opportunity to learn, grow and become a much better designer by  
mentoring, teaching and managing is such a great experience. Same  
thing for teaching design at a local college or even jr college. You  
get back so much.

Mark

Also - check out a great DMI paper called 'Leveraging Design's Core  
Competencies' by Chris Conley (IIT Institute of Design)




On Sep 2, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Mike Wood wrote:

> Thanks everyone for the resources, I will check them out.
>
> Luke, our studio is trying to embrace your last point about supporting
> designers who want to manage others and those who don't. It is a  
> recent
> change so the jury is still out but some of the early issues are  
> dividing
> responsabilities and design authority.
>
> Going to check out your articles now.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
> On 8/24/07, Christina Wodtke <cwodtke at eleganthack.com> wrote:
>>
>> I recommend Creative Company-- many interesting practices
>> http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Company-Became-Agency-Agencies
>>
>> John Wood wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mike,
>> I bought a relevant book recently, but haven't had a chance to do
>> much more than skim through it yet, so I can offer no more review
>> than it seems worth a look. It does include interviews and case
>> studies on organisations like IDEO and Dyson:
>>
>> Design Management: Managing Design Strategy, Process and
>> Implementation, Kathryn Best, Ava Publishing, 2006. ISBN:  
>> 782940373123
>>
>> Here it is on Amazon.com <http://amazon.com/>:
>> http://www.amazon.com/Design-Management-Managing-Strategy-
>> Implementation/dp/2940373124/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-7613262-8876807?
>> ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187955367&sr=8-1
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> John
>>
>> On 24 Aug 2007, at 01:13, Mike Wood wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Does anyone know of any books/articles that describe successes with
>> design
>> studio organizations? Design studio orgs present the unique
>> challenge of
>> integrating those skilled at management with those skilled at
>> design, which
>> can often call on different skillsets. There can result discomfort
>> in that
>> the skilled designer has trouble influencing the organization and the
>> skilled manager has trouble influencing design.  I have seen
>> solutions that
>> attempt to devide these skillsets into two tracks: a management
>> track and a
>> design track.
>>
>> Skillset divisions might be:
>>
>> Management Leadership
>> * Workpartner negotiations
>> * Resource management
>> * Implementation escalation
>>
>> Design Leadership
>> * Design critique
>> * Internal design negotiation
>> * Designer development
>>
>> I think this issue becomes significant for larger design
>> organizations (50+)
>> and I'm coming at the problem from an org 200+ . Any input would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mike
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