The Design Studio Method : Creative Problem Solving with UX Sketching

The struggle with balancing creative products that are innovative, technically feasible, and financially sound is one designers and web professionals go through every day. The Design Studio Method is a creative problem solving process that allows you to quickly generate ideas, evaluate them, and reach consensus, achieving that balancing act. Brian Sullivan’s The Design Studio Method gives answers that you have been looking for, showing you how to be innovative and efficient without sacrificing quality and collaboration. This book simplifies the complicated method, explaining each step, each participant’s involvement, and how to adapt the method to your needs.

provides step-by-step procedures to ensure your success. From illumination, to generation, to presentation, all the way to iteration, this book provides the road map you’ll need to start generating innovate products.

• Shows you how to involve all members of the creative process—from clients to directors—so that everyone participates, critiques, and innovates.
• Features real-world examples of Design Studio projects that highlight the successes of this method and ways to adapt it to your needs.
• Includes a website that showcases videos covering each step of the method and other procedures that crop up along the way.

The Design Studio Method is a method that allows a team to successfully implement collaborative design, thus doing away with the siloed approach that plagues many design agencies and teams today. It is a complicated process that consists of many moving parts and talking heads. The Design Studio Method helps simplify the method, explaining each step, each participant’s involvement, and how to adapt to your needs.

gives you a look into Design Studio Methods, providing step-by-step procedures for all stages of the successful method. From illumination, to generation, to presentation, all the way to iteration, this book provides a road map to the sometimes complicated, yet incredibly helpful method.

Accompanying the step-by-step procedures are the author’s very successful Da Vinci Design notes. These notes are taken from the methods the master used himself when he designed his products and inventions, and are applied to modern-day procedures. Case studies and real-world examples are provided at the ends of chapters to help you get a better idea of how this method works in a professional setting. Finally, ways of adapting Design Studio are provided, to make it fit designers’ specific needs (more agile, dealing with non collaborators, etc).

efficient without sacrificing quality and collaboration.