Strategy with Design

August 11th, 2006 by Luke Wroblewski :: 7 Comments

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Luke Wroblewski is a product designer, strategist, and author. He is currently the Principal Designer of Yahoo! Inc.’s Social Media group and Principal of LukeW Interface Designs, a product strategy and design consultancy he founded in 1996. Luke has authored a book on Web interface design principles titled Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability and numerous articles on design methodologies, strategies and applications including those featured in his own online publication: Functioning Form.

From BusinessWeek to Davos, design is being heralded as an essential contribution to successful corporate strategy and innovation. But it wasn’t that long ago that many corporations only thought of design as a way to “make things pretty”. So what’s changed in the last several years that gave designers a seat at the boardroom table and why do we have technology and information overload to thank for it?

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