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How Does Design Make a Difference?. Check out these before and after images by Garr Reynolds http://www.slideshare.net/garr/sample-slides-by-garr-reynolds. Think designers are odd ducks, who should be confined to their desks? Wrong!
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How Does Design Make a Difference? • Check out these before and after images by Garr Reynolds • http://www.slideshare.net/garr/sample-slides-by-garr-reynolds
Think designers are odd ducks, who should be confined to their desks? Wrong! They should sit at the CEO’s immediate right at the boardroom table. --Tom Peters, Design
The wealth of nations and the well-being of individuals now depend on having artists in the room. In a world enriched by abundance but disrupted by the automation and outsourcing of white-collar work, everyone, regardless of profession, must cultivate an artistic sensibility. We may not all be Dali or Degas. But today we must all be designers…. --Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
Business schools in particular drill their students in management, accounting, and technology, but few offer anything approaching Design 101—the one thing that combines creative thinking, analytics, data assimilation, and the inherent ability to express oneself visually. --Nancy Duarte Multimedia Consultant for An Inconvenient Truth