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    The Strategic Designer: Tools & Techniques for Managing the Design Process
    The Strategic Designer: Tools & Techniques for Managing the Design Process
    The Strategic Designer: Tools & Techniques for Managing the Design Process
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    The Strategic Designer: Tools & Techniques for Managing the Design Process

    By David Holston

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    Providing insight on how to be a successful and strategic designer, David Holston answers many of the questions plaguing the profession today, including how to boost efficiency and enhance creativity.

    The design profession has been asking itself some important questions lately:

    How do designers deal with the increasing complexity of design problems? What skills do designers need to be competitive in the future? How do designers become co-creators with clients and audiences? How do designers prove their value to business?

    Designers are looking for ways to stay competitive in the conceptual economy and address the increasing complexity of design problems. By adopting a process that considers collaboration, context and accountability, designers move from 'makers of things' to 'design strategists.'

    The Strategic Designer shows designers how to build strong client relationships, elevate their standing with clients, increase project success rates, boost efficiency, and enhance their creativity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateMar 31, 2011
    ISBN9781440315183
    The Strategic Designer: Tools & Techniques for Managing the Design Process
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    David Holston

    An Adams Media author.

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