Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (May 22, 2013) © 2013

  • Dan M. Brown

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ISBN-13: 9780133409208
Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals
Published 2013
The increasing complexity of design projects, the greater reliance on remote team members, and the evolution of design techniques demands professionals who can cooperate effectively. Designing Together is a book for cultivating collaborative behaviors and dealing with the inevitable difficult conversations.
Designing Together features:
  • 28 collaboration techniques
  • 46 conflict management techniques
  • 31 difficult situation diagnoses
  • 17 designer personality traits
This book is for designers:
  • On teams large or small
  • Co-located, remote, or both
  • Working in multidisciplinary groups
  • Within an organisation or consulting from outside

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  • Introduction: Conflict, Collaboration, and Creativity
  • 1. Designer as Contributor
  • 2. The Designer Mindset
  • 3. Listening: The Essential Skill
  • 4. The Role of Conflict in Design
  • 5. Assessing Conflict: What’s Really Wrong
  • 6. The Model of Conflict: Patterns, Situations, and Traits
  • 7. How Collaboration Works
  • 8. The Four Virtues of Collaboration
  • 9. Situations: Circumstances and Scenarios Common to Design Projects
  • 10. Traits: Evaluating Yourself and Your Colleagues
  • 11. Conflict Patterns: Behaviors for Reaching Resolutions
  • 12. Collaboration Behaviors: Embodying the Virtues

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