I’m reading the book Articulating Design Decisions by Tom Greever and taking notes.
Chapter 1
- Job interviews are an opportunity to practice talking about your job
- Communicate in the language of your stakeholder, not pixels
- What’s good design? Answer like ‘simplicity’ or ‘use of space’ confuse looks with usability. Don’t redesign without business needs or without solving problems.
- Remove subjectivity from decisions by grounding them in research. Biased or inconclusive research makes it harder.
- Dialog is sufficient for fine art critique. However, in business you need to make decisions.
- They way designs talk among themselves is different from how they would talk with a stakeholder.
- It’s hard to explain decisions based on intuition.
- Digital products impact people’s lives, that’s why everyone has an opinion.
Chapter 2
- Include stakeholders in the design process.
- We don’t see the code written by developers. We see UI created by designers.
- When we collaborate and disagree, we get defensive and fail to focus on real issues.
- Words are powerful (wars, changing minds).
- Good communicators win (ex. more job opportunities).