This document discusses the benefits of pair design, where two designers work together using one keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Pair design is presented as increasing information flow, critical thinking, and communication between designers. It can result in better designs created in less time by reducing reworks through collaboration. The document encourages trying pair design and providing feedback on the experience.
20. ☯
Let’s imagine a context.
Who? FireFox User Experience Team
What? FireFox users want to tweet
their bookmarks
21. +
How would you try to
design & test this idea?
22. One idea:
Start small. Pair designers together
and prototype a design w/ a product,
front-end, ux designer.
ex. UX Designer + Viz Designer =
talk to users w/ a prototype that you
build together.
23. Now, let’s solve a
real problem together.
1. take a screenshot of
a real app you’re working on
2. open up your preferred
design tool and paste it in.
26. what did you experience?
• Did it hurt to pair?
• Did you have fun?
• Did you share design skills?
27. what if you could ...
• have a better design in less time
• redesign less
• have an attitude of action (think,
make, check)
• communicate better
• let go of your design ego and
say “I don’t know how, show me.”
31. Pairing failed? Try again.
• Pairing isn’t for everyone! (It’s not a perfect process,
try to evolve it.)
• Pick the right phases of the design process to pair (ex.
rough, proto, high-fedility, you don’t have to pair 100%
the time.
• Ask for feedback + ask for quiet time.
• Try online design & review tools to provide feedback.
(ex. We use Pixelapse.com )
32. Challenge!
1. Try pairing again this week.
2. Report back & give us feedback
@ info@pairdesign.co
3. Was it good? bad?
4. Need more help? Let us know.
35. Find your pair.
(Like this idea? Contact us)
info@PairDesign.co
Tweet @pairdesignco + @getdopamine
w/ hashtag #pairdesign
Thanks for pairing with us. D We are getdopamine.com