One of the things I find fascinating about designers is that being right in their mind about a design is the most important thing.
They’re wrong.
What’s important is stakeholder alignment behind that design, using evidence to tell the story.
2/ People trust people. And your audience only knows you’re a person if you’re willing to be vulnerable, human, informal, maybe even weird. It even turned out that if you made a mistake, owned it, and explained it they’d trust you more!
The complete text of my book, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, is now freely available online at design-justice.pubpub.org!
If you like it, please do:
- buy a copy from an indy bookstore
- write a review somewhere online
- add to syllabi
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You ask, we provide: now you can share your #customerjourneys in read-only mode so your clients and colleagues can't "enhance" them 🙂
#customercentricity isn't just a buzzword, it's what we're all about.
Check it out: narrandum.com
User-centred design is not getting a bunch of people together for a workshop to talk about what they think the user need is. It doesn’t matter what we THINK the user need is. User-centred design is doing the hard work to go and bloody find out from actual users what they need.
We're experiencing some strange issues related to user accounts at the moment. Looks like something has changed in one of the packages we use for authenticating users. You might not notice any problems, but if you do - bear with us, we're on it!
A couple of tiny CSS bugs that sometimes made a big mess crept into the last release. They've been fixed and lessons have been learned. Sorry if you were wondering why your screen looked all weird.