Managing your design projects
Introduction
Well designed new products and services can improve customer satisfaction, strengthen brand image and assist in promoting your business to new customers.
When design projects are efficiently monitored and integrated into business strategy, this can help to reduce costs and ensure that the quality requirements for your products or services are properly met.
This guide outlines some of the methods required to manage projects effectively. This includes how the design process should be planned and recorded, the investment that may be required to implement design management effectively and the benefits of integrating design into the development process from conception to delivery of a new product or service.
Subjects covered in this guide
- Introduction
- The key stages of the design process
- Documenting the design process
- Managing creative employees
- Drafting effective design documents
- Integrate design with other business processes
- Communication at each stage of the design project
- Share information across the company
- Manage design to respond to business challenges
- Invest in people, processes and infrastructure
