The Quest for Quality Time with Designers
In the ever-changing landscape of the business and practice of commercial interior design, the only constant is transformation, and nothing stays the same for long. In many recent travels throughout the design community, I have heard an increasingly frequent intonation of frustration from the manufacturing side of the business. Acquiring focused attention from the staff members of today’s top design firms is getting increasingly hard to achieve. Capturing that elusive quality time with today’s design professionals is a challenge for vendors above and beyond what it was even a few years ago, and even holding a meaningful conversation at a lunch appointment can be a challenging task today. Just as in everything else in our contemporary workplace, as well as across the design industry, what many of us now experience has fragmented into short bursts of information and passing glimpses of fleeting images brought to us via our smartphones. For …
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