Designing Together Apart - BDConf DC 2015

Whether you call yourself a designer or a developer or a strategist or something else, the work we do is creative work. Many teams are now doing this work from multiple locations, spread out across cities, states and even countries. In this session we’ll look at the fundamental building blocks for creative work, and how you can create and nurture these things whether you’re working together in the same room, or in teams spread out across the world.

Transcript

1. Designing Together Apart Jared Ponchot // BDConf DC 2015 // @jponch
4. The bare essentials
7. Creative work essentials
8. You do creative work!
9. 2+2
10. Insight Energy Focus
13. The eureka myth
14. Insights
15. Research
16. Space
17. Helpful constraints
18. Some is better than none.
19. 51 Company Employees INTERVIEWED 21+ Hours Invested INTERVIEWING 15 Depts./Disciplines REPRESENTED +
20. Fascination
24. Curiosity
26. No reward
30. What does it mean?
32. Creatives are pro-choice
33. GROUP 1
 no choice, no reward GROUP 2
 no choice, reward GROUP 3
 choice, no reward GROUP 4
 choice, reward
34. GROUP 1
 no choice, no reward GROUP 2
 no choice, reward GROUP 3
 choice, no reward GROUP 4
 choice, reward
35. The power of insights
36. Flat communication
37. Be intentional
38. 5:15
39. Ask good questions
40. What’s gone well lately? What’s been challenging? What are you learning? What are you excited about? What’s 1 way I could make your life better?
41. Energy
43. You-shaped spaces
49. The collaboration myth
51. vs.
52. Focus
58. Here be Dragons!
63. Critique
65. Critique is for insights
66. Critique is for insights
67. Build trust
68. LO ERS VIRGINIA IS FOR
69. LO ERS DESIGN IS FOR
70. Thanks! @jponch or jared@lullabot.com