Design Currency

Understand, define, and promote the value of your design work

Jenn Visocky O'Grady, Ken Visocky O'Grady (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2013
New Riders Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-321-84492-7 (ISBN)

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The world needs beautiful design. But aesthetics are inherently subjective. In Design Currency, authors Jenn and Ken Visocky O’Grady show you how to frame the value of your design work in terms that your business partners will both understand and respect. An actionable resource, Design Currency empowers you to do your job with less pushback on aesthetic decisions, encourages earlier involvement in the creation process, and makes it easier for you to justify your fees.

For a designer, understanding how your work creates value is essential to growing your business and building better, more profitable relationships. Those relationships are easier to initiate, establish, and retain when you can clearly explain how your capabilities meet your client’s needs. This book shows you how to do exactly that.

In Design Currency, you will learn how to:

Leverage traditional design skills in new ways

Measure the value that your design work brings to a project

Articulate that value so that you can position yourself as a partner in the development process

Charge what you’re worth and prevent your job from getting crowd-sourced or out-sourced

Generate business value by better identifying audience needs

Jenn Visocky O’Grady is a professor at Cleveland State University, and Ken Visocky O’Grady an associate professor at Kent State University–both Ohio state schools where they launch the careers of design hopefuls and recent converts. They’re also principals at Enspace, and co-authors of The Information Design Handbook, and A Designer’s Research Manual. Accolades include recognition in such magazines and books as HOW, Print, Caffeine for the Creative Team, and The Layout Workbook. The pair strives to make academic concepts approachable while celebrating the power, impact, and potential of good design.

CH1: Understand Market Conditions
Design Is Having Its Moment
The Sky, Not Falling
• Data Visualization and Information Design
• User Experience Design (UXD)
• Design Thinking
• Design Research
• Design Entrepreneurship
Quick Tips

CH2: Understand Your Skills
Your Preferred Qualifications
• Design, Thinking + Making
• Project Management
• Life-long Learning
• Comfort with Risk
• Accepting Criticism
• Comprehensive Communication
• Organization and Systems Thinking
Visualizing Your Abilities
What’s Your Letter Profile?
Quick Tips

CH3: Understand Your Services
Design is a Value Generator
Hard and Soft Value
Defining Value by the Project
Hierarchies of Value
• Hierarchy of User Needs
• The Design Staircase
Quick Tips

CH4: Define Metrics
Metrics, Metrics, Metrics!
Setting Metrics
• Return on Investment
• Cost / Benefit Analysis
• Money Isn’t Everything
–Goals, Outputs, and Outcomes
–S.M.A.R.T. Metrics
Making The Case: Numbers in Context
• Balanced Scorecard and the Four Powers of Design
Quick Tips

CH5: Define Business Impact
Demonstrating Impact: How Does the Design Industry Measure Up?
Proving Design’s Value, A Series of Studies
• Design Value Factfinder
-Findings
• Design Effectiveness Industry Report
-Findings
• The Economic Effects of Design
-Findings
Quick Tips

CH6: Define Your Audience
Getting to Know You
• Human Centered Design
• Universal Design
Craft A Research Plan
• Logic Models
Make Sense of Research
• Frameworks
- POEMS
- POSTA
- Users: Think/Do/Use
- The 5E User Experience
Design Alchemy
Quick Tips

CH7: Promote The Value of Design
Case Studies

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.7.2013
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 230 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design
ISBN-10	0-321-84492-0 / 0321844920
ISBN-13	978-0-321-84492-7 / 9780321844927
Zustand	Neuware