{"id":621,"date":"2015-10-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccsmfa.wordpress.com\/?p=621"},"modified":"2021-01-18T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:59:43","slug":"how-to-engage-designers-to-ensure-great-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2015\/10\/how-to-engage-designers-to-ensure-great-products\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How to engage designers to ensure great products&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-content\/uploads\/screen-shot-2015-10-08-at-8-34-46-pm.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-content\/uploads\/screen-shot-2015-10-08-at-8-34-46-pm.png?resize=300%2C190\" alt=\"Conversations in Design\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The title of this post and the diagram comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dubberly.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hugh Dubberly <\/a>and&nbsp;his slidedeck&nbsp;about how <a href=\"http:\/\/presentations.dubberly.com\/files\/engage_designers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">design is centered on models and conversation and politics<\/a>. Not kidding.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s centered on models in part because \u201cFor people to use a product successfully, they must have the same mental model (the user\u2019s model) as that of the designer (the designer\u2019s model).&#8221;\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnd.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don Norman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s centered on conversation in part because &#8220;all products are the result of conversations.&#8221;\u2014Hugh Dubberly<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s centered on politics in part because &#8220;The real issues, the issues that matter, are essentially political in nature. What\u2019s important to us? What do we value? What are our values?&#8221;\u2014Hugh Dubberly<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of centers, so think: the intersection. It&#8217;s my paraphrase and you ought to confer with his original to get the richness of his argument, along with the references and stories he brings together. <a href=\"http:\/\/presentations.dubberly.com\/files\/engage_designers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s the link again to his slidedeck.<\/a> I feel that for any designer it&#8217;s time well spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this post and the diagram comes from Hugh Dubberly and&nbsp;his slidedeck&nbsp;about how design is centered on models and conversation and politics. 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