This document lists tools and principles for building an interactive team. It provides tips on prioritizing quality and shipping over constant changes, prototyping early and frequently, and ensuring good team culture and fit. It emphasizes pausing from work to improve work, valuing both collaboration and isolation, considering the user experience 5 years in the future, and observing users directly. The overall message is about building an effective team focused on high-quality work through the listed strategies and tools.

1. TOOLS FOR
BUILDING YOUR
INTERACTIVE
DREAM TEAM
@CAMERONMOLL

2. checkthis.com/ixteams

8. @AUTHENTICJOBS AUTHENTICJOBS.COM

11. authenticjobs.com/seven

12. BASECAMP basecamp.com
CAMPFIRE campfirenow.com
GITHUB github.com
DROPBOX dropbox.com
INVISIONAPP invisionapp.com
PAPER BY 53 fiftythree.com/paper
GOOGLE+ HANGOUTS google.com/hangouts

13. 1
QUALITY & SHIPPING
ARE IN A CONSTANT
TUSSLE FOR TOP
PRIORITY.

14. Programmers don't burn out on hard
work, they burn out on change-with-the-
wind directives and not shipping.
@MARKAB

16. 2
PROTOTYPING
HAPPENS EARLY,
FREQUENTLY, AND
HABITUALLY.

17. R

19. Let’s change the phrase “designing in the
browser” to “deciding in the browser.”
@DANIELMALL

20. R

21. IN•SPEC•TOR•AT•ING verb
Iterating in code using WebKit's
Inspector.

22. 3
CULTURE & FIT ARE
INDISPENSABLE TO
THE TEAM’S SUCCESS.

23. The single most important indicator of
the overall health of a company? How
teams spend their lunch hour.
MARK O’BRIEN
CEO, Newfangled

24. RAW
SOFT
ABILITY
SKILLS
TEAM CREATIVE
THINKING
FIT

26. Skills can be taught, but working with a
jerk is no fun for anyone.
NOAH STOKES
C0-founder, Bold

27. DISCPROFILES4U.COM

28. 4
PAUSING FROM
WORK IMPROVES THE
WORK.

29. 5
COLLABORATION &
ISOLATION ARE
VALUED EQUALLY.

30. THE 3 Qs FOR GREAT
EXPERIENCE DESIGN
uie.com/articles/the3qs/

31. 6
WHAT IS THE
EXPERIENCE LIKE
FIVE YEARS FROM
NOW?

32. CAN YOU SEE FIVE
YEARS AHEAD?

33. 7
IN THE PAST SIX
WEEKS, HAVE YOU
SPENT TWO HOURS
OBSERVING THE
USER EXPERIENCE?

35. Hours of useless meetings and endless
debates could be replaced with just a
couple hours of testing to see what users
are really doing.
JARED SPOOL (paraphrased)
UIE

36. BIG SPACESHIP: READY
TO GO BIG?
d.pr/xMti

37. BUILD A TEAM THEY’LL
NEVER LEAVE: THE 4
THINGS THAT MATTER
d.pr/kEmi

38. REWORK
by Jason Fried & David
Heinemeier Hansson

39. 8
NET EFFECT IS
EVANGELIZED.

40. PHOTO: MARK AVINO

42. THANK YOU.
@CAMERONMOLL