Assignment 2: Thinking.

After our brainstorming we had to think more about how our specific area of the text can relate to design or be helped by design. As I  chose the salesmen, connectors and mavens aspect of the book I felt it was fairly obvious how they related. We encounter people who are Connectors, Salesmen and Mavens everyday and this is the exact same in design. For example our tutors are Connectors, who get us in touch with Mavens who can provide information we need and we can then get in touch with Salesmen. For a successful design to work it needs all three types of people otherwise there's a break in the circle almost. We need connectors to get us in touch with other like minded people or even the exact opposite, but people who will be useful to the project/design. We also need Mavens to help us out a bit, for example say you were totally clueless on programming, touched on in our last lecture on make things|make sense, and although you know nothing about it, you are very interested. Mavens could explain it to you, as they are 'information specialists'. They are all about hoarding information, sharing and trading and helping out so would be the perfect people to help you understand a new concept. Finally Salesmen will help in the whole process and getting the idea across, to as many people as possible and making the design more of a success. Salesmen have lots of charisma and know the right way to communicate the idea in a 'likeable' way and persuade people its the right choice, thus helping spread your design and in the end 'sell' it. These three types of people are needed in every different kind of design, whether it be a professional design firm, a voluntary design firm or design students connectors, mavens and salesmen make the whole process work!