In a HuffPost Live segment last week, Sara Cordoba Rubino, strategic designer for Amsterdam-based design agency Booreiland and the creator of 75 Tools for Creative Thinking, told host Jordan Freeman that apps can be powerful tools for stimulating creative thinking.
This homogeneous generation of urban sites is documented in Familiar, a new book by strategic designer Luca Picardi.
A startup may begin by crowdsourcing their logo, hire a freelance designer for ad hoc assignments, engage with a consultancy for longer-term projects, then arrive at hiring a designer and begin building strategic design capabilities.
This paper will investigate the strategic design decision-making of an in-house designer in a company with a large product portfolio, with respect to how designers plan for future visual alterations of the product.
"An ordinary 'coffeeshop' playlist on Spotify wouldn't work well for them," Boris Boom, Strategic Product Designer at kollekt.fm, told me.
Dennis is a lifelong respected subject matter analyst on national policy and global stability issues, an area of expertise he developed during the Cold War as strategic warfare systems designer, missile defense architect and arms control analyst.
In fact design and designers can contribute to corporate strategic renewal, and this paper proposes a framework for understanding how this can be achieved.
From observing the natural structures and movements of living organisms, mechanical designers regard strategic use of symmetry as a powerful design tool.
From new job opportunities for architecture graduates to new expectations for business development, community engagement, and strategic communication, today's designers must be critical storytellers — especially as our selective reliance on data risks undermining designers' crucial roles as interpreters of the places where we live and work.
