Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience

by Tom Greever

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Articulating Design Decisions fills a critical gap in design education by teaching designers how to communicate and defend their work to non-designers, stakeholders, and executives. Tom Greever provides practical frameworks for explaining why specific design choices serve user needs and business goals. The book covers everything from preparing for design reviews to handling pushback with diplomacy and evidence.

Published:: 2015
Pages:: 259

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In this collection, Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience references 3 other books.

It draws on The Design of Everyday Things, Don't Make Me Think and Influence.

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Greever references Norman's Design of Everyday Things as the foundation for usability principles that designers must be able to articulate when defending interface decisions to stakeholders

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The Design of Everyday Things

by Don Norman

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The book draws on Krug's Don't Make Me Think to illustrate how usability heuristics provide objective, evidence-based criteria for evaluating design alternatives in stakeholder meetings

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Don't Make Me Think

by Steve Krug

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Greever discusses Cialdini's principles of persuasion from Influence as tools designers can use when framing design rationale to gain stakeholder buy-in

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Influence

by Robert Cialdini

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Influence

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