Brown ’94 Writes Guide for Professional Designers

In Designing Together: The Collaboration and Conflict Management Handbook for Creative Professionals (New Riders), Dan Brown ’94 offers practicing designers a guide to working with other people. The increasing complexity of design projects, the greater reliance on remote team members, and the evolution of design techniques demands professionals who can cooperate effectively. This book encourages cultivating collaborative behaviors and dealing with the inevitable difficult conversations.

Brown covers 28 collaboration techniques, 46 conflict management techniques, 31 difficult situation diagnoses, and 17 designer personality traits. The volume should prove helpful for designers on large or small teams and those working in remote locations, in multidisciplinary groups, within an organization, or as outside consultants.

Readers should enjoy the sidebar contributions from David Belman (Threespot), Mandy Brown (Editorially, A Book Apart), Erika Hall (Mule Design Studio), Denise Jacobs (author), Jonathan Knoll (InfinityPlusOne), Marc Rettig (Fit Associates), and Jeanine Turner (Georgetown University).

Brown is the author of Communicating Design (New Riders) and co-founder and principal at EightShapes, LLC, a user experience consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. that has engaged with clients in telecommunications, media, education, health, high-tech, and other sectors. He has been practicing information architecture and user experience design since 1995. He was a philosophy major at Wesleyan.

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