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How Designers Can Earn a Seat at the Table (firstround.com)
15 points by zt on July 22, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This had some great advice.

One specific thing I have seen is that someone from the design world is perfectly comfortable in the subjective world of how a particular product or design makes you 'feel'.

The disconnect I have seen is when a designer takes the feeling approach when talking to a business stakeholder saying things like "I just feel like..." or "It just doesn't feel right".

Granted, someone from the business world has their own way to describe subjective feelings with words like "That doesn't scale". So a designer learning how to speak about their subjective feelings in terms of a business stakeholder is a powerful tool that I have seen many designers use to gain their seat at the table!




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