9 Best Articles in 2022
Bersin
Prediction 1: Agile organization models will start to go mainstream.
Bersin
4 min read · From 2018 · Why is “agile” organization design so important in 2018? Companies are only a few years into a decades-long shift away from corporate hierarchy into a world
Reader View · Shared by 134, including Tom Connor, Christian Kloeppel, Rezha Julio, David Dias, Stefan Diepolder, Daniel Boos, Nick Floro, Jakub Albert Ferenc, Gerrit Eicker, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Andreas Heer, Ⓓarío Macchi, Christian P. Stobbe
Steven Sinofsky
Functional versus Unit Organizations
Steven Sinofsky
20+ min read · From 2016 · Some personal history, and pros/cons of organization structure.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 181, including Bryan Onel, Chris Calo, Dominik Grolimund, Mark Kaigwa, Bertrand Maltaverne, Florian Stambula, Reto Lehnherr, kp 🇺🇦, Veronika Lampion, PotHix, Jacob Jarnvall, Pat Kua, Florian Hanke 🍎, getAbstract, Thomas Eichmann, excellent-analytical-tiger, Liza Sperling
Brad Frost
Design System Interview Questions
Brad Frost
4 min read · From 2020 · Successful design systems are finely tuned to the organization they serve. At the beginning of every client design system engagement, we spend a great deal of time learning about our client's culture,…
Reader View · Shared by 68, including Sara Soueidan, Matt, Stéphanie Walter, Marius Bleuer
Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)
Apple’s Product Development Process
Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)
8 min read · From 2016 · Apple’s Product Development Process may be one of the most successful design process ever implemented. With the company verging on becoming the world’s first $1 trillion business organization – there’s a lot that designers can learn from Apple and introduce into their own design environments.Apple is a notoriously secretive business. In Steve Jobs’ time at the company it would have been near impossible to find out about the internal workings of the business. This isn’t surprising when a business
Reader View · Shared by 46, including designshard, Courtney Bolton ★, Johannes Dornisch, Adam Smith, Twitty, Howard Getson
designmodo
How to Create a Well-Organized File Management System for Designers
designmodo
5 min read · From 2020 · File organization for designers can be tough since we work on so many different projects. How do you organize your design files?
Reader View · Shared by 145, including Shawn Venasse, David Hellmann, Gabriele, sascha aßbach, Katja Evertz, Niklaus Gerber, Marius Bleuer
McKinsey & Company
How to create an agile organization
McKinsey & Company
~17 min read · From 2017 · Transforming companies to achieve organizational agility is in its early days but already yielding positive returns. While the paths can vary, survey findings suggest how to start.
Shared by 41, including Tom Connor, Philippe Surber, Ryan Boren
McKinsey & Company
Ready, set, go: Reinventing the organization for speed in the post-COVID-19 era
McKinsey & Company
~13 min read · From 2020 · The need for organizational speed has never been greater. Here are nine ways companies can get things done fast, and well.
Shared by 52, including Sergio Caredda, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, ⭐️Danielle Guzman ⭐️, Massimiliano Aroffo, Florian Graillot, Bob Apollo Inflexion-Point FF.ISP 🇪🇺 🇵🇱 🇪🇸, Leo Blazquez
goodpractices.design
Design good practices
goodpractices.design
~11 min read · 2020-11-12 · Guidelines to naming conventions, components structure and document organization.
Reader View · Shared by 154, including Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Stéphanie Walter, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, tcherno, Benoist Lawniczak, Oscar MacDonald, Elise Korsmo Fjeld
abstract.com
Why a cookie-cutter design system won’t work for your organization
abstract.com
5 min read · From 2019 · It’s not a good idea to just use a design system template for your own organization. Lyft's Product Design Systems Manager shares the core principles of their design system.
Reader View · Shared by 33, including Center Centre – UIE, Nick Floro
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Harvard Business Review
Design Your Organization to Match Your Strategy
Harvard Business Review
6 min read · Jun 6th · An organization is nothing more than a living embodiment of a strategy. That means its “organizational hardware” (i.e., structures, processes, technologies, and governance) and its “organizational…
Reader View · Shared by 21, including 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Dion Hinchcliffe
Fast Company
School shootings are not a design issue
Fast Company
4 min read · Jun 4th · Why is the nation’s preeminent professional organization for architects playing along with far-right talking points about school safety and security?
Reader View · Shared by 9
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey Design Newsletter Ed. 7 April 2022
McKinsey & Company
1 min read · Jun 5th · Instead, the key differentiator seems to be the way designers interact with the rest of the organization, in particular whether they’re seen as peers rather than service providers, how well they’re…
The BMJ
The red flag patient data breaches of a wannabe global data superpower
The BMJ
2 min read · May 12th · The design of economies, argues Gerry McCartney, is too important to leave to economists (doi:10.1136/bmj.o1075).1 The World Health Organization’s Council on the Economics of Health for All is…
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McKinsey & Company
Unleashing the power of agile teams
McKinsey & Company
~18 min read · From 2018 · Small, independent teams are the lifeblood of the agile organization. Top executives can unleash them by driving ambition, removing red tape, and helping managers adjust to the new norms.
Shared by 66, including Tris Hussey, Tom Connor, Christian Kloeppel, Rob Biederman, designshard, Scott Brinker, Wilko S. Wolters 🇩🇪🇪🇺
MIT Sloan Management Review
Architect Your Company for Agility
MIT Sloan Management Review
6 min read · From 2018 · As agility becomes more crucial, so does business architecture – the design of an organization capable of continual change and rapid development and delivery. In a brief article for MIT Sloan Management Review, Jeanne Ross – the principal researcher at MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research – argues for agile architecture featuring empowered teams. Ross suggests mechanisms for aligning teams with organizational objectives and accommodating constant change.
medium.com
The OS Canvas — The Ready — Medium
medium.com
~15 min read · From 2016 · How to rebuild your organization from the ground up
Reader View · Shared by 54, including Thomas Pleil, Christopher Allen, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Stephanie A Kowalski, Philippe Surber, Bertrand Maltaverne, Clément Drévo, Colin Jones, Thomas Euler
UX Planet
Using Gestalt Laws of Perceptual Organization in UI Design
UX Planet
10 min read · From 2019 · 7 Gestalt laws with practical examples
Reader View · Shared by 65, including Matthias Lampe, Grzegorz Wapiński, Ines Bieler, 瑞拿頭, osioke.eth
TNW
The psychology of Web design: How colors, typefaces and spacing affect your mood
TNW
8 min read · From 2017 · A great web design is so much more than just delivering content and making it look good. When visitors come to your site, they produce a set of feelings about your website and your organization. The type of feelings they produce – positive or negative – are entirely in your hands and should not be […]
Reader View · Shared by 286, including Claus Heller 🇺🇦, Oleg Baskov, Gerald Soparkar, Michael Grupe, Victor Tolosa, Stephanie A Kowalski, Thomas Power, Katja Evertz, Martina Grolimund, Merkstatt, Marc Steffen, Dominik Grolimund, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Andreas Fischler, Mara Averick
Brad Feld
The Three Machines
Brad Feld
4 min read · From 2017 · Lately, I’ve been stewing over increased complexity being generated by companies around their organization approaches. While this activity varies by stage, in many cases the leadership team expands to a large (greater than six) number of people, there become two executive teams (the C-Team and the E-Team), the CEO gets sucked into endless distractions and working... Read more
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community-canvas.org
The Community Canvas
community-canvas.org
4 min read · From 2017 · The Community Canvas is a framework that helps people and organizations build stronger communities. It provides a template for anyone who brings people together.
Reader View · Shared by 448, including Klaus Eck, Su Franke, Dominik Grolimund, ThomNagy, Johannes Lenz, Tris Hussey, Edney Souza 🧙♂️, von Moerenburgh, Thomas Pleil, { Monah } 💡, Tatjana Nebel, Sylvie Reinhard, Sara Usinger, Katja Evertz, Jesús Torres 👩💻, Liliane Ferrari ™, Amel Mehenaoui, designshard, Mark Kaigwa, ᴄʟᴀᴜᴅɪᴏ sᴄʜᴡᴀʀᴢ
mynameisjehad.com
Designing a scalable design organization
mynameisjehad.com
8 min read · 2021-08-04 · Design is finally getting the spotlight it has deserved for a long time. Designers are in high demand at the moment. This is partially due to an overall strong market for tech talent. It’s also…
Reader View · Shared by 48, including Steven Sinofsky, Nicolas Dengler, excellent-analytical-tiger
Quartz
Zappos is struggling with Holacracy because humans aren’t designed to operate like software
Quartz
5 min read · From 2017 · “Asking them to learn the management equivalent of Dungeons and Dragons on top of their workload is foolish, if not inhumane.”
Reader View · Shared by 125, including Daniel Mezick, Leslie D, Luis Roig, Pat Kua, Philippe Surber, Chung Chen, Mathew Ingram, Mark Kaigwa, Gideonro, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Marco Unternaehrer, Uwe Sinha, Jon Thompson, Bill Johnston, Inês Silva