5 Ways Devs and Designers Can Work Better Together
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Teams are often told to work together without a clear understanding of how to navigate different work styles, roles, and processes. So how can designers and devs work together efficiently and collaboratively? Atlassian designer Kelly Snow will reveal 5 techniques you can bring back to your team. Together, devs and designers can improve product quality – not to mention team morale. Kelly Snow, Lead Designer, Atlassian
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5 Ways Devs and Designers Can Work Better Together
- 1. 5 ways Designers and Devs Can Work Better KELLY SNOW | LEAD UX DESIGNER | ATLASSIAN
- 2. Why is that 1 pixel off? Look at this hard problem I just solved! DEVELOPERS DESIGNERS
- 3. Set ground rules for the feedback you want. Feedback
- 7. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” for humans USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN Steve Jobs & Kelly Snow
- 9. Research: Usability testing Try it yourself Observe others using it Ask why
- 12. Designers
- 13. What is design? Visual design User experience design User research Visual design R300Y300 G300T300 P300B300 Circular Pro Bold Circular Pro Book 80pt bold N700 Colors, fonts, imagery, logos
- 14. What is design? Visual design UX design • personas • wireframes • sketches • mocks • prototypes Communication Context User experience design User research Humans UX design artifacts
- 15. What is design? Visual design Research Qualitative Interviews Observational interviews Usability testing Heuristic evaluation Competitor evaluation Surveys Quantitative A/B testing Analytics Surveys User experience design User research
- 16. Agenda What is design? Communication Empathy Diversity Triad discussion
- 17. PROBLEM Sometimes we talk past each other
- 18. Words
- 19. What does this word mean to you? PR
- 22. Language is ambiguous Know that your jargon is not their jargon PR Pull request Press release Public relations Product requirements
- 23. or we don’t talk at all
- 25. NOT HEALTHY TIMELINE Project start Design handoff JAN MAR
- 26. HEALTHY TIMELINE Project start Brainstorm, concepts Design reviews, tech consulting, tech specs Usability testing Dev work starts JAN JAN FEB FEB MAR
- 27. Clarify and define key terms. Communicate throughout a project to avoid misunderstanding Communication
- 28. Agenda What is design? Communication Empathy Diversity Triad discussion
- 31. Help me understand the level of effort Hm, what are you trying to solve? DEVELOPER DESIGNERS
- 32. Wait, where did that come from? I don’t like that label, i’ll change it. DEVELOPERS DESIGNERS
- 34. Understand the other perspective Empathy
- 36. Split attention Solve problems Innovation less likely Product team of one
- 37. google images Air travel designing an experience
- 39. Design by Product manager
- 42. Focused expertise Solve harder problems Innovation accelerates Designing with a designer “Innovation demands design but when designers lack influence, superb products become almost impossible.”
- 43. Lucy Denton Connect week, Austin TX July 24th - July 28th, 2017
- 45. Gather multiple points of view to build the best experience. Diversity
- 47. Design We design a user/customer experience that is great Triad model Technology We build a a great, stable, scalable product Business What we make is great for the business
- 48. Design We design a user/customer experience that is great Triad Panel Discussion Technology We build a a great, stable, scalable product Business What we make is great for the business
- 49. Thank you! KELLY SNOW | LEAD UX DESIGNER | ATLASSIAN