Engineering Culture By Infoq

Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Sara Bayless Da Costa, visual storyteller and design thinking evangelist at Fjord. Bayless Da Costa gave a talk at QCon San Francisco on Rapid Prototyping Methods. They spoke about prototyping, collaborative design, designing for new interfaces and new skills that designers need in order to be successful with new technologies. Why listen to this podcast: - The importance of taking a collaborative design approach with multiple roles involved – design is not just done by designers - Design and development work well together to deliver an exceptional customer experience - The importance of empathy when understanding people’s needsVisual storytelling is a powerful way to convey messages and inform good decision making - Evergreen needs – human needs have not fundamentally changed, but the way we solve them is constantly evolving - Designers need new and different skills to be effective in this new world Notes and links can be found on: http