This blog is about the stories we tell each other in the pub. They are the stories about things we've learned about being in the design world, and hidden inside are the lessons we've learned from the things that happened.
It's also a space for us to gather some stories from people who would like to join in on the book we are writing for AVA on the people side of design management. The title is still being settled, but it's subject will stay the same.
The title came from an event we held with a group of designers and design strategists called Design Knights at Blacks club in Soho on August 1st 2007. The theme was war stories. We thought we could all bring a story to share. What happened was an amazing amount of real design management knowledge brought to life by the protagonists. What actually was going on. What actually happened. No cleaned up versions here - what went wrong, and what we learnt as a result.
We wondered if it might work as an ongoing place to collect such thinking.
So this blog is a home for any of your war stories - things you have learned through pure experience, that you believe others could benefit from.
We might need some groundrules:
Please focus your story around what happened, <strong>and</strong> what you learned as a result. This gives us your context, action and the refective bit which makes these stories really work.
Make sure the people, organisations and companies are not identifiable - be oblique rather than descriptive please.
If you are reading from a company, please don't assume the person being described is you - there are many patterns to what goes wrong in design projects, and it is likely that you could 'see'; yourself in one of them, and made unhappy as a result.
Please don't just let off steam about some gripe, or generally abuse clients or colleagues, or use this to get revenge (I will moderate comments.)
If you'd like to add a story please do so by commenting, or send it to me gill {at} plotlondon {dot} net.
And thank you in advance for joining in!
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