Portland Confab panel emphasizes diversity in experience, and in networking
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A successful design team is rarely composed of single-talent professionals, and rarely comes from a single source of referrals. This was one of the recurring themes of the third Coroflot Creative Employment Confab, held this time in a pleasantly un-rainy Portland, Oregon, and featuring a panel drawn from some of the region’s most renowned design-driven employers.
Nike, Intel, Ziba and Cinco Design have all achieved notoriety in their fields for churning out great ideas and great products at a reliable pace, and the representatives of those firms on hand last Thursday — Beth Sasseen, Nick Oakley, Chelsea Vandiver and Kirk James, respectively — each claim heavy reliance on professional diversity for their success. That diversity, it turns out, manifests not just within teams (Ziba’s designer + engineer + researcher + social scientist groupings are a good example), but within individual designers.
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