Dan Brown - Essential Mindsets for Being an Effective Designer

Dan Brown dives into the world of creative and collaborative mindsets, the importance of self-reflection in UX, and why we shouldn’t be too rigid in our design process.

Highlights include:

- Which battles need to be fought in design and which don’t?
- Why do we need to develop better Information Architecture skills?
- Do we rely too much on established design processes?
- What does it mean to be assertive in a positive way?
- Can you admit that you don’t know and still be seen as an expert?

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Who is Dan Brown?

Dan is the Co-Founder and Principal of EightShapes, a user experience consultancy based in the Washington DC area, whose clients have included large enterprises like Capital One, 3M, and Sprint, as well as tech giants such as Google, eBay and Cisco.

Dan is the creator of “Surviving Design Projects”, a game that helps teams to improve their conflict management skills, as well as the incredibly useful “Information Architecture Lenses”, a deck of cards that helps designers to interrogate their IA in different ways. 

He is also the author of three books (1) Communicating Design (2) Designing Together, and (3) Practical Design Discovery, all of which are widely considered to be essential reading for UX designers looking to communicate, collaborate and practice design more effectively.

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Find Dan here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danmbrown/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brownorama/
Website: https://eightshapes.com/
Medium: https://medium.com/@brownorama

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