Design systems are a crucial success factor for digital businesses, and virtually every major player works with one. Still, they can sometimes be hard to sell to management. Here’s a ready-to-use formula to calculate the ROI of any design system.

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If you start with “useful” as a first principle, then you automatically place customer need and experience first, writes Wolff Olins’s Mary Ellen Muckerman.

After spending weeks searching for a contract that was simple for me and my clients to understand, in 2008 I wrote my own and published it on 24ways ( http://24ways.org/2008/contract-killer ) for anyone to use. Now it’s time for an update.

Apps that are simple, intuitive, and have few features are well suited for enterprise tablet use.

“How did you do that?” My colleague Leigh sounded impressed. He had been working with a problem client for weeks trying to get design approval. Then I came along and was able to get signed-off in a single conference call. “Can you teach me how you did that?” he asked. I mumbled something about years of experience, but the truth was I didn’t have a clue. It just seems I can find design approval easier than most.

… are hand letter-pressed business cards with a greeting on the front and 3 blank spaces on the back ready for your personal details.

... ist das Netzwerk der Berliner Design-Community! Anlaufstelle für Kreative bei Projekten und Ideen im Bereich Design rund um den Kreativstandort Berlin: Als international ausgerichtetes Netzwerk kuratiert und organisiert CREATE BERLIN Designprojekte im In- und Ausland zur Förderung der Berliner Kreativwirtschaft und ihres Standorts.

... Netzwerk für kreative Köpfe

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