Integrating design into your workflow enhances team collaboration and understanding, reduces costly changes, and ensures smoother product delivery. Key strategies include fostering empathy among team members, utilizing rapid iteration, and creating prototypes to address potential issues effectively. This collaborative approach can help overcome challenges that arise from diverse disciplinary perspectives.

1. Integrating Design
Into Your Workflow
Karl Kaufmann @karolus

2. Design is a funny word. Some people think
design means how it looks. But of course,
if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
-STEVE JOBS

3. Benefits
Integrating design into your workflow boosts team
understanding and collaboration, minimizes costly
changes, and delivers your client a product much
more smoothly.

4. Design Process Workflow
Empathy for all project members is key—as well as leaving the fear to
be wrong behind. Rapid iteration and close collaboration.

5. Sketch Prototypes and Style Tiles
Quick method to share ideas with the team, as well as test potential
problems without a large development timeframe

6. Technical Benefits
Visual assets tell the story far better than coding and/or documentation
—especially for non-technical team members

7. Wrap-Up
Bringing your team together to solve project challenges collaboratively
saves time and minimizes the potential for major roadblocks.
Additionally, practitioners of different disciplines approach challenges
differently—and so seemingly insurmountable challenges can be
overcome.

8. Additional Information
Suggested Resources
• Samantha Warren: Style Tiles, http://www.styletil.es
• Daniel Mall: Reading is Fundamental Element Collages,
http://danielmall.com/articles/rif-element-collages/
• Laura Kalbag: Design Systems,
http://24ways.org/2012/design-systems/

9. Thank You
@karolus
kkaufmann@karlkaufmann.com
karlkaufmann.com