Hello Designers and Design Researchers,
I am looking for an excellent project management software for designers.
I am wondering if you all know any project management softwares (like
Basecamp) that serve the need for design thinking in business?
For instance, most of project management softwares are designed around the
ontology of a linear business process, which usually means placing the
cart before the horse for a designer.
This is fair enough in group projects, since too much randomness and
constant insights might work against deadlines, and
design exploration never really ceases.
However, for the project to follow a non-linear process, with support for
visual thinking and integrative processes and reasoning, tools like Basecamp
does not really serve the purpose. Or is it so that Project Management
itself is a tool of "bounded rationality"?
What project management tools do designers end up using nowadays, to be able
to do the following:
- Design thinking within linear project schedules?
- Introduce non-linearity in a comprehensive way, to the "buzzwords
oriented" business people
who put emphasis on deadlines?
- That "tracks" the illusion of a top down, mechanical metaphor approach but
in the background
allows bottom up design oriented approach?
Is there such a *magic software tool* that will finally allow the designer
to prove results
within the world of mechanical metaphors of time and cost ie especially for
designers to work with
those kinds known as "project managers"?
cheers,
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Ranjit Menon
TAIK Helsinki
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