Tag: LeadingDesign

Free body conflict/a vector joke

A final thought on conflict. This time, how the different modes of conflict (competition, accommodation, avoidance and collaboration) can be thought of as free-body collisions. Avoidance – the…

Avoidance

My job today is to convince you that avoidance is a mode of conflict, alongside the others we’ve considered this week: competition and acceptance. I could try to…

Dealing with competition in design

In this series of posts, I’m exploring conflict in design, which, for these purposes, is what happens when two people have different views on a subject. In each…

Approaching conflict in design

Some people like conflict. Other people stay away from it.Some people attempt to engage constructively in conflict. The opposite is also true. For me, conflict is simply when…