Description of the article « Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience »
Good design can still die in a meeting. Articulating Design Decisions is about the part of the job design school rarely teaches: explaining your choices to clients, managers and developers so the right ideas survive.
Tom Greever explains how to understand what stakeholders really care about, how to prepare for a design review, and how to listen before you respond. He then shows how to frame your answers around users and business goals rather than personal taste, and how to handle the moments when you need to agree, push back or follow up later.
It's written for UX and UI designers at any level who present their work, and it's useful for product managers and developers who sit in design reviews too.
It's a book about communication rather than design technique, so it assumes you already know why your design works. Its value is in helping you say so convincingly.
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