Listen to the accompanying audio here: https://soundcloud.com/brilliant-basics/bb-session-prototyping-your-workflow Sergey Soloviov (http://www.soloviov.ru/) hosted our latest BB Session, with a nice talk on how we can improve our workflow, and adopt new ways of working successfully.

1. SESSIONS
Sergey Soloviov
Thursday 20 November 2014
Prototyping
Your Workflow

2. Urge to try new things

3. How do I transition
without damaging
what I have?

4. Teams adopt new methods
because there's proof they work

5. “If we mess this up, we’re still okay”
– Experimentators

6. Waterfall → Agile
• Agile method is well defined
• And widely talked about
• Yet adoption often leads to complications

7. 1
Pure methods work in the
ideal world
Find the right mix that
works for your team
…and your project
E.g.: Hard to develop in parallel with creative exploration

8. 2
Teams have to be ready
to drive themselves
Continuous effort to
motivate, train and
encourage every team
member
E.g.: Encouraging team to speak up in stand-ups

9. 3
Pain of growth
underestimated
Keep the impact of
changes down
E.g.: Teams giving up half way through
Sergey in 2007☺

10. Better idea
↓
• Change one thing at a time
• Learn techniques first, then change the approach
• Prototype your workflow via making hypothesis and
testing them

11. Why this is better
↓
• Less pressure, greater chances for success
• Time and energy to educate the team
• Gradually increase synergy
• Manage clients easier: trustful client will support
experimentation

12. Build pattern library retrospectively
↓
Start designing patterns
Team will learn:
• what constitutes a pattern
• how granular they should be
• how to deal with patterns of patterns
• platform to use
• how to rationalise patterns and avoid duplicates
• a standard set for 80% of projects
A

13. Usability testing in a waterfall project
↓
Rely on iterative testing in your design process
Team will learn:
• must-have vs nice-to-have for quality findings
• who's better at planning and who's better at execution
• how findings impact the solution
2B

14. 3C
Interactive prototype alongside the designs
↓
Try designing in a browser
Team will learn:
• tech framework to use
• design re-usable modules that fit everywhere
• build modules that scale to accommodate content
• see themes, modules and navigation paradigms as different dimensions of design

15. See also
• “Prototype Your Workflow” on ALA
alistapart.com/article/prototyping-your-workflow
• Lean UX
(available in the Library of Great Things™)

16. THANK YOU!