Episode 156: Practical Design Discovery With Dan Brown

The Big Web Show

Dan Brown is a web designer who specializes in IA, design research, and leading teams. He's written three books: Practical Design Discovery (2017), Designing Together (2013), and Communicating Design (2011), and created a card game, Surviving Design Projects, to help designers practice conflict resolution. Dan and his business partner Nathan Curtis co-founded DC-based UX design firm EightShapes in 2006.

What is discovery and why is it important to design? What’s the difference between Discovery and UX Strategy? or Research? How can you sell Discovery to organizations and people who are afraid of it? How has design changed since you got started in the 1990s?

Links for this episode:

• Dan Brown on Twitter
  
• EightShapes.com
  
• Dan Brown on Medium
  
• GreenOnions.com/books
  
• Dan Brown - EightShapes
  
• GreenOnions.com
  

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