Vol. 2: design-management.de

For the German speaking readers of this blog I’ve found a quite nice yet critical review on Heise Online of the Digital Life Design 08 Conference I’ve blogged about earlier on Monday this week. For the rest of us Jeff Jarvis has posted his impressions and musings on his blog as well.

While some might consider Business Models for Video Sharing Communities (like YouTube.com) in the context of Web 2.0 as some sort of off topic I do think that Design Managers should have a basic understanding about the players, positionings & shifts in the market.
Via Heiko Hebig (whom I’ve met at reboot 9.0 in Copenhagen) I’ve […]

“Put together a team with a great engineer, a crazy designer, a good businessperson, and a good human-factors scientist or psychologist of some kind, and put them in a room and get them to try to work together. It’s a big challenge, but they come to a point, surprisingly quickly, where they realize that what […]

Design Management also means Information Management! Well, you’re right this might not be too new for you ;-)
However while conducting several workshops over the last couple of months on the use of Web 2.0 tools and Blogs in particular I’ve observed that on one hand many people are highly interested in getting access to […]

I must say I’ve been quite excited to have received an invitation to the Digital Lifestyle Day 2006 (technorati: DLD06 ) recently. This two day event organized by Hurbert Burda Media came to my attent…

Yes, again Apple and the iPod … actually I have a good reason to write about Apple one more time since I hope to get my brand new iPod Nano (white surface) this week! Gee, I can’t wait to touch this tiny little gadget ;-)
If you would have asked me two years ago if I […]

while the news that Apple computer is planning to use Intel processors in the near future popped-up in the media for some days now, I haven’t spent too much time on this issue, yet.
this morning I’ve been directed to an interesting article by Robert X. Cringely via the blog of a former “B820 Strategy”, Open […]

I don’t want to let this month pass by without a second posting … did I say I’d want to do “one posting a week minimum” at the beginning of the year? well, I do take care of providing you with design management news more often next month; promised ;-)
today I’ve recalled an article I’ve […]

even though the term “designmanagement” or “design manager” attracts adequate attention and respect in the meantime the discussion about the definition of a “design manager” is still multifaceted.
however I don’t regard this as a weakness of the concept itself. it is rather an indication that the construct (! - not management concept!) incorporates a wide […]

my credo in design management education has always been that managers do not have to understand every detail of a technology. rather they should be able to understand the underlying notion and impact of new technologies in order to participate in general discussions right from the start.
this principle is also reflected in the addressing of […]

as you see I can’t keep myself quiet even in the christmas break ;-) however I thought you would be interested in the yearly top ten web design mistakes edited by usability guru jakob nielsen. nielsen’s list of main mistakes is a very good summary of the main pitfalls in web design he/we discovered throughout […]

this morning it popped up to my mind that I didn’t write a post about digital issues yet. maybe it’s because we’ve read too much about it some 3 years ago; you remember ;-)
anyway, while surfing to a very early type of a weblog at tomalak.org I discovered a post by Bruce Tognazzini. those of […]

even though the article (see inc.com) is already a bit older the interview with harvard professor clayton christensen gives some valuable insights into the concept of “disruptive technologies and disruptive innovation”.
students from my past courses at westminster university | MBA design management know what I’m talking about.
according to christensen the likelihood of being attacked […]