[IxDA Discuss] Trying to educate my design team

[mark schraad]

A couple of thoughts having been down this road... and this assumes (since
you called them 'my design team') that you are managing or at least leading
this team.
Determine those skills, topics or ares that your team needs more awareness.
Then assign them to members of the team and ask them to do the research,
study the best of bread and the current and future directions... and report
to the group. The lunch setting, brown bag or provided, can be very
effective. The other direction is to bring in guest speakers. People that
can speak to and demonstrate. One of my favorites is to invite in a
professional story teller... 'cause what we often do is tell stories.

IMHO - the worst thing you can do is to lecture your team about what they
ought to be. It can be your initiative, but is much better if it comes from
others. Maybe that is just my style of management... but it has always
proven more effective.

Mark

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Michael Dunn <mike at foolishstudios.com>
wrote:

> Hello, all.  I have been lurking for a while and finally have a dire need
> that I hope you all can help me with. I am currently trying to organize
> some
> 'lunch and learn' sessions in an effort to educate our design team on,
> well,
> designing more effectively for the medium.  I have several things I plan
> to
> cover such as web standards, table-less design and how it can liberate the
> designer, using fireworks as a prototyping and comp tool rather than
> photoshop, do's and don'ts, among other things.  I am looking for
> resources
> that might aid me in this- books, web articles, powerpoint or keynote
> presentations, etc. I've already compiled a small collection of such, but
> would like to pick the collective brain on this matter.  Any suggestions?
>
> --
> Michael Dunn
> FoolishStudios
> www.foolishstudios.com
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