Lead Designer's Handbook

CHAPTER 4 MANAGING THE DESIGN PROCESS

Introduction

With the project team assembled the lead designer and the design team are ready to begin a project. This chapter considers some of the high-level concepts that frame the lead designer role, including intuition and iteration, collaborating and coordinating, and interfaces and interdependencies. It examines how technological changes are driving innovation and increasing the complexity of these challenges, which are unique to the lead designer role. It explains why these concepts, and the design process, need more than project management processes.

Iteration is crucial to the design process, A core role for the lead designer is managing the iterations of the design as unpredictable comments from ...