Mason Adair shares an article on the benefits of moving outside of clearly defined roles.  When talented design, marketing and product people collaborate, great things can happen. However, especially in newly formed teams, significant overlap in these roles can leave teams mired in the question of ‘who does what’? Left unanswered, this question can lead to tension and in the worst case, undermine the product. Answering the question for your team should be less about, say, what a generic UX…

In this article, Mason Adair takes a look at how design culture differs in countries across the globe and shares a link to the raw data supporting his article. Since culture is people, you can arguably draw conclusions about global differences in design culture by looking at the individuals working in design roles around the world. That’s what I did a few months ago while conducting research for this article on service design. The underlying data set, derived from a…