Consulting
Building and scaling capabilities
Design Tools
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Overview
Make challenging design tasks easier with the right tools.
Design tools make challenging design tasks easier. They ensure more ‘repeatable results’ in an efficient way. A design manager selects the right tools, makes them available, trains them to users, updates and refreshes them and ensures that best-practice is shared amongst users. It requires focus not only on the tool, but the benefits that they bring. Some of the topics covered in this module include:
- What is a design tool and why do you need them?
- What differentiates design tools from other tools in an organisation?
- How to make sure designers share their best-practice and experience?
- Why do you need to develop new tools that inspire designers and demonstrate professionalism to stakeholders?
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Learning Goals
In this module you will pursue the following learning goals. You will be able to:
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Show understanding of the vocabulary around managing design tools.
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Know how design tools positively influence business.
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Explore what design tools are needed for what design tasks.
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Manage the implementation and maintenance of design tools.
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Create a logical toolbox with core tools and present them in a logical flow.
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Drive the differentiation and the link between the design tools and the tools of other functions in the organisation.
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Resources
Design Tools utilises our proprietary 'Design Tools Mapping' tool.
PARK training materials can be found in the Livebook, our e-learning application.
