War Room Collaboration Across the Internet Canyon - WordCamp NYC 2015

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Working remotely can feel creatively isolating. Switching from a brick-and-mortar agency, to pants-optional sounds awesome—but if you’re accustomed to joining a coworker at the whiteboard, to hammer out a UI concept over marker fumes, you’ll agree the back and forth in GitHub/Slack channels doesn’t cut it. In this talk, I’ll share how our work-from-home team overcomes technical and social hurdles, to mirror natural, in-person creative ideation (sketching, wireframing, etc.) with a mashup of hardware and cloud tools. This talk is best for teams allowing or considering telework, as well as freelancers who want to impress their clients. Example 1 - Diagrams - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FIq-t-1tZHKE7QECazdGJUsWsy21oEKC9JWxQBNbx2s/edit?usp=sharing Example 2 - Remote Interview Tool - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EWPylj-Lf_5PVwN0n9-ZRRuOmbfgLT1QknAlU6YET6U/edit?usp=sharing Example 3 - Sketching Studio - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vwCvjvxuYFMXs_T_iY3K1v8ZUB-XfLX12EDTd_xRvE0/edit?usp=sharing Example 4 - Wireframes with IXD Concepts - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QYCTAHNOfyuMtVpnJoGlGsGfyh3DGMOT67Dsmk9WvAI/edit?usp=sharing

Design

War Room Collaboration
Across the Internet Canyon
WordCamp NYC 2015 • #wcnyc • @anthonydpaul

fear 1 of 3 = culture
office of ADG Creative

fear 2 of 3 = my value
office of ADG Creative

fear 3 of 3 = natural collaboration
office of ADG Creative

There and back again…
Universal lessons on communicating better

Anthony D Paul
Director of User Experience
@anthonydpaul

digital
“whiteboarding”
overview
of tools
culture + my value natural collaboration

culture = emotional connection
body language
gestures
intonation

front-facing camera ipevo (crane camera) snowball mic

my value = shared task awareness
decentralized proj. mgmt.
captured conversations
prioritized venues

natural collaboration = all of the above
organic / unplanned
improvisational
multi-modal / tactile

Example 1 - Flow Diagrams
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FIq-t-1tZHKE7QECazdGJUsWsy21oEKC9JWxQBNbx2s/edit?usp=sharing

Example 2 - Remote Interview Tool
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EWPylj-Lf_5PVwN0n9-ZRRuOmbfgLT1QknAlU6YET6U/edit?usp=sharing

Example 3 - Sketching Studio
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vwCvjvxuYFMXs_T_iY3K1v8ZUB-XfLX12EDTd_xRvE0/edit?usp=sharing

Example 4 - Wireframes with IXD Concepts
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QYCTAHNOfyuMtVpnJoGlGsGfyh3DGMOT67Dsmk9WvAI/edit?usp=sharing

1. What type of content do
we need to interact with?
2. What type of interaction
do we need to facilitate?
lesson learned = break your tools

Year Without Pants, Scott Berkun
http://is.gd/YUAw1C
Why Remote Teams Are the Future (and How to Make Them Work)
http://www.helpscout.net/blog/virtual-teams/
WeWorkRemotely
https://weworkremotely.com
WordPress Slack
https://make.wordpress.org/chat/
(my site and blog)
http://adp.rocks or http:// .ws
Thank you
@anthonydpaul

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