Design meetings

• Design games: facilitating creativity
  "Design games are fun activities that are primarily used to provide input to a design problem. This website contains details for a range of design games, including those used for generating ideas, identifying functionality, understanding language, understanding categories, visualising solutions."
  (Donna Spencer, Maadmob)

• How to run a design critique
  "Unlike a brainstorming meeting, where the exclusive goal is to come up with new ideas, a critique meeting is focused on evaluating a set of existing ideas, and possibly identifying future directions or changes. Instead of hoping that hallway and email discussions will lead the team in a good direction, it’s generally worth investing time to set up critique meetings to drive the design forward."
  (Scott Berkun)

• Keep your design meetings on track by having a mainline conversation
  "Learn how to recognize when a meeting is going off track and what to do about it. Learn to set up your meetings for success. Agree on ground rules in advance so participants let you control the meeting."
  (Hugh Beyer - InContext)

• Making design meetings work
  "When meeting invitations arrive, do you and your co-workers immediately groan in protest at the impingement on your productive time? Worse, do people start moaning when invited to your meetings? Many people have forgotten that most significant work happens with other people in meetings. This is particularly true for design work."
  (Karen Holtzblatt - InContext)