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Designing on Purpose - GiantConf 2014

Designing on Purpose - GiantConf 2014

In a multi-device world, the design process can feel overwhelming. There are so many variables to account for, so many in betweens, and so much to do. Designers are working frantically to keep all the balls in the air. Clients are wanting a window into the designer’s work and the ability to review and approve as projects move along. Many designers don’t know what the deliverables should be anymore, and neither do their clients. In this session, you’ll learn a simple process you can walk your client or team through that will help ensure valuable deliverables, clear goals, and happy clients. This session will touch on a lot of topics, but it will be very practical with specific takeaways you can begin using right away to help organize and guide your next project. The process outlined will not lock designers into specific tools that defy their personal preferences, but rather provide a framework for understanding why and when to do what within the design process. We’ll cover everything from project kick-offs to content strategy within the design process all the way to visual style application.

Jared Ponchot

June 12, 2014
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  1. Jared Ponchot // @jponch // GiantConf 2014
    Design Process & Deliverables in the Responsive Age
    DESIGNING ON PURPOSE

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  3. MO’ DEVICES
    MO’ PROBLEMS
    Photo wallpaper of Notorious BIG from alphacoders.com

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  4. PURPOSE, NOT PREFERENCE
    PRIORITY, NOT PLACEMENT
    SYSTEMS, NOT PAGES

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  5. — Victor Papanek
    DESIGN IS THE CONSCIOUS EFFORT
    TO IMPOSE A MEANINGFUL ORDER

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  6. Audi A7 Sportback plans from the-blueprints.com

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  7. Audi A7 Sportback plans from the-blueprints.com

    REQUREMENTS GATHERING

    CONCEPT DESIGN

    MARKET RESEARCH

    TEST CAR

    FINAL DESIGN

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  8. Audi A7 Sportback plans from the-blueprints.com

    REQUREMENTS GATHERING

    CONCEPT DESIGN

    MARKET RESEARCH

    TEST CAR

    FINAL DESIGN

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  9. Audi A7 Sportback plans from the-blueprints.com

    REQUREMENTS GATHERING

    CONCEPT DESIGN

    MARKET RESEARCH

    TEST CAR

    FINAL DESIGN

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  10. Audi A7 Sportback plans from the-blueprints.com

    REQUREMENTS GATHERING

    CONCEPT DESIGN

    MARKET RESEARCH

    TEST CAR

    FINAL DESIGN

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  11. Audi A7 Sportback plans from the-blueprints.com

    REQUREMENTS GATHERING

    CONCEPT DESIGN

    MARKET RESEARCH

    TEST CAR

    FINAL DESIGN

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  12. DISCOVER

    strategists
    !
    DESIGN

    designers
    !
    DEVELOP

    developers
    !
    DEPLOY

    client & users
    SOUND FAMILIAR?

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  13. Audio A7 Sportback photo from exclusivecardesign.blogspot.com

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  14. Audio A7 Sportback photo from exclusivecardesign.blogspot.com

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  15. Audio A7 Sportback photo from exclusivecardesign.blogspot.com

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  17. DISCOVER

    strategists
    !
    DESIGN

    designers
    !
    DEVELOP

    developers
    !
    DEPLOY

    client & users
    FAMILIAR PROCESS

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  19. WHISPER DOWN THE
    LANE DESIGN
    Photo from http://failblog.cheezburger.com

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  20. WHY HAVE WE
    DONE IT THIS WAY?

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  21. ALLITERATION is

    ALMOST
    ALWAYS
    AWESOME

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  22. FAMILIARITY IS
    FANTASTIC

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  23. — Paul Rand
    THE PUBLIC IS MORE FAMILIAR WITH BAD
    DESIGN THAN GOOD DESIGN. IT IS, IN EFFECT,
    CONDITIONED TO PREFER BAD DESIGN, BECAUSE
    THAT IS WHAT IT LIVES WITH. THE NEW BECOMES
    THREATENING, THE OLD REASSURING.

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  24. DIVISION OF LABOR

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  25. STRATEGISTS UX/DESIGNERS FRONTEND DEVS BACKEND DEVS
    DIVISION OF LABOR

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  26. STRATEGISTS UX/DESIGNERS FRONTEND DEVS BACKEND DEVS
    DIVISION OF LABOR: RESPONSIVE DESIGN

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  27. — Fred Brooks
    9 WOMEN CAN’T MAKE
    A BABY IN 1 MONTH!

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  28. ⌘N

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  29. KEEP EVERYONE FOCUSED
    ON PURPOSE & CONTENT
    not process or deliverables

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  30. CREATE LIGHTER WEIGHT,
    LIVING COMMUNICATION TOOLS
    not deliverables

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  31. THE BIG
    REVEAL

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  32. DISCOVER

    strategists
    !
    DESIGN

    designers
    !
    DEVELOP

    developers
    !
    DEPLOY

    client & users
    INSTEAD OF THIS ...

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  33. PURPOSE CONTENT
    STYLE
    STRATEGY

    DESIGN

    DEVELOPMENT

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  34. FOCUS ON

    OUR REAL VALUE

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  35. PURPOSE
    CONTENT
    STYLE

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  36. DESIGN IS PROBLEM DISCOVERY
    & problem Solving

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  37. — Albert Einstein
    IF I HAD AN HOUR TO SOLVE A PROBLEM AND MY LIFE
    DEPENDED ON THE SOLUTION, I WOULD SPEND THE FIRST
    55 MINUTES DETERMINING THE PROPER QUESTION TO
    ASK, FOR ONCE I KNOW THE PROPER QUESTION, I COULD
    SOLVE THE PROBLEM IN LESS THAN 5 MINUTES.

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  38. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnXtuktNdlM

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  40. WHY?

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  41. WHAT IMPACT WILL THAT HAVE?

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  42. WHAT WILL THAT GET YOU?

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  43. THE RIGHT QUESTIONS CAN
    HELP THE CLIENT DO THEIR JOB,
    & SET YOU UP TO DO YOURS

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  44. — Andy Rutledge
    YOU MAY BE SURPRISED, BUT I
    NEVER ASK DESIGN-RELATED
    QUESTIONS IN DESIGN PROJECT
    DISCOVERY MEETINGS.

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  45. — Andy Rutledge
    THE REASON I DON’T ASK DESIGN
    QUESTIONS OF THE CLIENT IS THE SAME
    REASON AN ARCHITECT DOESN’T ASK
    THE CLIENT WHAT PSI THE BUILDING’S
    LOAD-BEARING FOUNDATIONAL
    STRUCTURES WILL NEED TO ENDURE.

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  46. WE CAN’T SOLVE PROBLEMS FOR
    OUR CLIENTS BASED ON THEIR
    PERSONAL PREFERENCES IN
    COLOR, TYPOGRAPHY & TEXTURE!

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  47. Photo from http://www.deceptology.com/2010/04/upside-down-world-map-shows-north-is-up.html

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  48. Tesco Subway Store in South Korea image from littledoremi.com

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  49. from evigo.com

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  50. from jcdecaux-oneworld.com

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  51. Tesco Subway Store in South Korea image from littledoremi.com

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  52. photo from theofficedealer.com

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  53. REFRAMING THE PROBLEM

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  54. — Harry West, Contimuum
    I WANTED TO LOOK AT THE PROBLEM
    AS THOUGH I’D JUST STEPPED OFF A
    SPACESHIP FROM MARS.

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  55. Photo from http://optigarden.com/tag/coffee-grounds/

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  56. Swiffer photo from ivillage.com

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  57. CONTEXT &
    RELATIONSHIP

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  58. photo from washingtoncitypaper.com

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  59. Washington Post: Stop & Hear the Music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw

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  60. WHERE & WHEN YOU ASK
    REALLY MATTERS!

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  61. http://bit.ly/187yUef

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  62. photo from extremetech.com

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  63. CREATE WONDER

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  64. WHY?
    instead of “What?” or “How?”

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  65. WHY A PURPOSE STATEMENT?

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  66. KEEPS THINGS ON TRACK

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  67. GENERATES BIG IDEAS

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  68. SIMPLIFIES COMPLEXITY

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  69. FACILITATES & COMMUNICATES
    ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

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  70. HAVE A STAR TO SAIL
    YOUR SHIP BY

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  71. PURPOSE
    CONTENT
    STYLE

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  72. FOCUS ON PRIORITY,
    NOT POSITION!

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  73. DESIGNING WITH
    CONTENT & HIERARCHY
    ‣ Content Model
    ‣ Presentation Model

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  74. THE CONTENT MODEL
    Documents ...
    ‣ the types of content your project needs
    ‣ the discrete attributes that make up each content type
    ‣ the relationships between them

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  75. http://bit.ly/13FTHlG

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  77. THE PRESENTATION MODEL
    Documents...
    ‣ the types of pages your project needs
    ‣ the discrete components that make up each page type
    ‣ the hierarchy of those components

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  78. THE PRESENTATION MODEL
    ‣ Content Asset Types (e.g. article, recipe, episode, etc.)
    ‣ Listings (e.g. blog, search results, etc.)
    ‣ Top Level Pages (e.g. homepage, category pages, section pages, etc.)

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  79. HIERARCHY

    HIERARCHY
    HIERARCHY

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  81. INTENT MAPPING

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  82. PERSONA
    PAGE TYPE / COMPONENT A
    PAGE TYPE / COMPONENT B
    PAGE TYPE / COMPONENT C
    SCENARIO A

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  83. COMPONENT

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  84. PURPOSE
    CONTENT
    STYLE

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  85. STYLE IS POWERFUL!

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  86. AVOIDING THE WHIM WINDS

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  87. PURPOSE COMES FIRST

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  88. SEEK EVALUATION,
    NOT CREATION

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  89. UNDERSTAND

    BRAND PERSONALITY,
    CHARACTERISTICS & VOICE
    not a desired look and feel

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  90. EMBRACE METAPHOR

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  91. Each of these celebrities embody
    personality traits and characteristics like
    intelligent, accessible, and classic.

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  92. Each of these car brands embody ideals like simple,
    dependable, useful, quality, tried-and-true.

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  95. VERBAL LANGUAGE,
    THEN VISUAL LANGUAGE

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  96. INSPIRE

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  97. PURPOSE, NOT PREFERENCE
    PRIORITY, NOT PLACEMENT
    SYSTEMS, NOT PAGES

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  98. — Jared Spool
    WE NEED TO LOOK AT OUR DESIGN
    PROCESS AS A WAY TO COME TO A SINGLE
    INTENTION AS MUCH AS IT IS TO MAKE
    THAT INTENTION REAL IN THE WORLD.

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  99. REMEMBER

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  100. REMEMBER

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  101. THANKS!
    Jared Ponchot // @jponch // GiantConf 2014

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