Designing a Culture of Design

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Learn how to create a culture of design at work, the signs of a design averse culture, and how anyone, even the intern, can become a design culture change agent. Presented by Chris Avore at Webvisions NYC on April 4 2014

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Designing a

Culture of Design

Chris Avore @erova

Aaron Irizarry @aaroni

April 4 2014Webvisions New York

people are

thinking talking writing

about culture

The Defining Elements of a Winning Culture

There’s No Such Thing as a Culture Turnaround

A Winning Culture Keeps Score

How to Engender a Performance Culture

Inspiring Design Thinking in a Predictable

Corporate CultureCatherine Courage MX 2013

Bringing Change to Life: Transforming Culture

through a Passion for Design

Bill Scott MX 2014

Becoming a Change Agent

Carrie Hane Dennison IA Summit 2014

Recreating A Design Culture at Scale

Phil Gilbert Monki Gras 2014

Building UX and Design Culture at GE

Greg Petroff MX 2012

why now?

why us?

why me?

#humblebrag

#humblebrag

Culture of Design?What is a

unwritten rules

behavior patterns & norms

shared values meanings

assumptions

A respectful, multi-team collaborative working environment where designers are empowered to effectively solve business problems via exploration, iteration, and validation.

in soviet

russia

if you

don’t

change

culture

culture

changes

you

in soviet

russia

if you

don’t

change

culture

culture

changes

you

AT YOUR JOB

design averse culture

design culture

It used to be that when we said we were going to be design-driven, the engineers said, “Well, here’s the technology constraints.” !

The product manager said, “Well, here’s the thing we have to solve,” and then gave it to the designers and said…

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-20/intuit-how-design-drove-its-turnaround

Make it pretty before it ships.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-20/intuit-how-design-drove-its-turnaround

features | requirements | solutions

Features

Requirements

Deadlines

control

opaque

risk averse

deliver the planned thing

deliver the right thing>

safely stifled

relaxed culture design culture!=

Culture of design

Culture of design

Design culture in

Practice

good design is good business

First of all, we made sure everybody in the

company had a visceral experience of what great

design was like.

Kaaren Hanson

CultureCraft the

Where to start?

Role Title Place

independent

specialistsgeneralists

the right people

promote your successes

Findsponsors

advocates allies

Shared creation

Incremental change is okay

External promotion

Be present

So Why Bother?

Adapt to change

Greater Trust

Shared accountability

Passive Transparency

Fail fast, learn faster.

Actually have fun

Have fun

Ongoing Process

A culture of quality requires employees to apply skills and make decisions in highly ambiguous but critical areas while leading them toward deeper reflection about the risks and payoffs of their actions.

Creating a Culture of Quality

http://hbr.org/2014/04/creating-a-culture-of-quality/

A culture of quality requires employees to apply skills and make decisions in highly ambiguous but critical areas while leading them toward deeper reflection about the risks and payoffs of their actions.

Creating a Culture of Quality

http://hbr.org/2014/04/creating-a-culture-of-quality/

Chris Avore @erova avore@erova.com #wvnyc