Dan SafferDesign Strategy for Design PortfoliosI hired designers for fifteen years, so I’ve probably seen thousands of portfolios, many of them pretty awful. This isn’t necessarily the…6 min read·Jul 13, 2023--11--11
Dan SafferNotes on Donald Shön’s The Reflective PractitionerDonald Schön’s The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action has so much to say (indirectly) about design and what it…9 min read·Jul 7, 2023--1--1
Dan SafferCreate More Value Than You TakeOver the last decade, the tech industry has seen a shift towards prioritizing value extraction over value creation. Companies are…4 min read·Apr 19, 2023--10--10
Dan SafferReconfiguring “Reconfiguring the Value Space”In 2001, the late management consultant guru Richard Normann, best known for creating the idea of corporate “missions” in the 1970s, wrote…6 min read·Jan 30, 2023--2--2
Dan SafferMy Favorite Design Articles of 2021The 100 Best Pens, As Tested by Strategist Editors by Karen Iorio Adelson and Lauren Ro5 min read·Jan 2, 2022--1--1
Dan Saffer2021 BibliographyNot going to lie: Like 2020, 2021 was another terrible year for my reading. Nevertheless, 20 books. Not quite as bad as the (ugh) 10 books…1 min read·Jan 2, 2022----
Dan SafferWhy I’m Joining FlipboardSome of you after reading this headline might be like, wait, they’re still around? Others of you, over 100 million of you, are current…3 min read·Jun 1, 2021--12--12
Dan SafferLessons from a Job SearchNote: I didn’t really want to write this article, but am doing so at others’ urging hoping it’ll give other job hunters some hope, some…4 min read·May 19, 2021--23--23
Dan Saffer100 Things I Know About DesignThere are three great design themes: making something beautiful, making something easier, and making something possible.7 min read·Mar 30, 2021--5--5