Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals [Paperback]

The increasing complexity of design projects, the greater reliance on remote team members, and the evolution of design techniques demands professionals who can cooperate effectively. Designing Together is a book for cultivating collaborative behaviors and dealing with the inevitable difficult conversations.

Designing Together features:

• 28 collaboration techniques
• 46 conflict management techniques
• 31 difficult situation diagnoses
• 17 designer personality traits

This book is for designers:

• On teams large or small
• Co-located, remote, or both
• Working in multidisciplinary groups
• Within an organization or consulting from outside

• Introduction: Conflict, Collaboration, and Creativity
• 1. Designer as Contributor
• 2. The Designer Mindset
• 3. Listening: The Essential Skill
• 4. The Role of Conflict in Design
• 5. Assessing Conflict: Whats Really Wrong
• 6. The Model of Conflict: Patterns, Situations, and Traits
• 7. How Collaboration Works
• 8. The Four Virtues of Collaboration
• 9. Situations: Circumstances and Scenarios Common to Design Projects
• 10. Traits: Evaluating Yourself and Your Colleagues
• 11. Conflict Patterns: Behaviors for Reaching Resolutions
• 12. Collaboration Behaviors: Embodying the Virtues

Dan M. Brown is the author of Communicating Design (New Riders) and principal at EightShapes, LLC, a user
experience design firm based in Washington, lS