Design is a Team Sport
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Argues that design succeeds when the process trains everyone who influences the outcome not just specialists The evidence includes a boarding pass redesign that would require replacing about 10,000 printers and supply chains so it’s unbuildable, a website redesign blocked by organizational constraints, and Rosenthal’s expectancy bias experiments showing expectations change behavior Describes a citizenship application project handling 6 million annual cases with 3,000 field reviewers where an immersive exposure program turns 130 inexperienced contributors into consciously competent designers and a 10‑month multidisciplinary team that rewrites PayPal checkout
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:56Defining design as intent
- 4:51The role of context
- 6:57Design limitations and reality
- 12:45Designing the user experience
- 18:02The design process
- 21:23The impact of expectations
- 28:25Expanding the design team
- 31:22Stages of competence
- 36:03Practical strategies for teams
- 44:03Conclusion
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