Building design capability in every client
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Your client may not have the needed design maturity to understand what you are doing so the work you do can be used well. Your time with them may be limited, and they need skills transferred to their people so the project can continue in your absence. Maybe the engagement is to actually build design capability into the client. Offering development of a level of design capability as a part of your pitch can be a game-changer. It also makes you a better designer when you get to do it. For Stephen Collins and his studio, acidlabs, most engagements include building design capability as part of the gig. Come and let's discuss what that's like.
Building design capability in every client
- 1. Building design capability? in every client Stephen Collins Founder - acidlabs @trib Photo by?Austin Ban?on?Unsplash Managing Design 2018
- 2. Photo by?Bing Han?on?Unsplash “Hi, I’m Stephen.? My job is being curious about the world.”
- 3. Photo by?Manoj Karingamadathil on?Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 “I solve dif?cult problems for a living.”
- 4. Design?
- 5. Design!
- 6. Most of our engagements are one or two designers embedded with a client team for 4-12 weeks Photo by?Pierre Ch?tel-Innocenti?on?Unsplash
- 7. For many of our clients, design is very new Photo by?Christian Joudrey?on?Unsplash
- 8. They often work with well-de?ned project methodologies… that they are very unfamiliar with
- 9. They are often? hungry to learn
- 10. Design is a? team sport Photo by?Quino Al?on?Unsplash
- 11. How might we? go about doing this? Photo by?Steve Halama?on?Unsplash
- 12. There’s a lot of just designing
- 13. Plenty of show-and-tell This is Nat, one of our designers
- 14. There’s a lot of? getting them to try things
- 15. Of walking people through things Here’s Nat again
- 16. Of building tools for them
- 17. Doing this breaks momentum,? but embeds learning? and rewards curiosity Photo by?Andreas Fidler?on?Unsplash
- 18. Coach for the long game Image courtesy NBC
- 19. Do you want to see? what it looks like IRL? Photo by?Patrick Perkins?on?Unsplash
- 20. Week 1 You’ve got to run before you can walk Photo by?Joseph Rosales?on?Unsplash
- 21. Week 2 The calm before the storm Photo by?Pop & Zebra?on?Unsplash
- 22. Week 3 and 4? Road trip!
- 23. Week 5? So. Many. Post-its… Photo by?Ferenc Horvath?on?Unsplash
- 24. Week 6? Moments of clarity Photo by?Joshua Earle?on?Unsplash
- 25. Week 7? Forest, meet trees Photo by?Stefan Steinbauer?on?Unsplash
- 26. Week 8? What else? Photo by?Sam Mgrdichian?on?Unsplash
- 28. Why would you do this? Photo by?Evan Dennis?on?Unsplash
- 29. Thank you. This is me trib@acidlabs.design @trib This is us hello@acidlabs.design @acidlabs https://acidlabs.design/