About a year ago we started looking at writing a book about the people side of design management.
Well, we finished it. However it has recently faced a much bigger challenge than deadlines. After plenty of deliberation with our publisher AVA, we have decided that the book they want to produce and the book we want to write are two different things. So we have amicably decided to go seperate ways.
However, we still want to publish the book we intended to write. We've had enough feedback from people along the way that they would welcome our book, and asking for when it will be availible.What really works for us is that the illustrations, images, warstories, interviews we have had from many other colleagues in the design industry have helped us capture something very unique in design books - a far more realistic vision of what it actually takes to work effectively with people. So, this email is not only to thank them, but also to ask you if you would be interested in contributing (with full credit of course) the same to a book that we published ourselves as Plot. We started this work, and would feel we had let down those who had given us their contributions, and lose the momentum we had created over the past year.
Now that we do not have to satisfy an academic audience, we intend to re-write the content to sharply focus on those who are actively involved in designing for public and private sector companies and clients. It can be a sharper and more targetted as a resource for working with rather than for, or despite people. We can build on the insights you have given us, and produce something we feel warrants people time in reading it, and using the methods we have developed. In particular, we can make it highly practical for those who are engaged in actively doing designing, rather than as an academic work.
We are very happy to share our work in progress with you, and are thinking of self-publishing with Lulu.
So, if you have a moment, we'd love to hear what you think.
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