Discovery: The First Step of the Design Process
What You’ll Learn
- State the problem
- Create problem objectives and contextual statements
- Use assertions to set the design direction
- Pull it all together with effective documentation
Change the Story—and the Conversation
What You’ll Learn
- Why the right kind of conversations are the key to culture change
- How to use “dialog interviews” to gain understanding and build relationships
- How to gather teams with real legitimacy and affect your organization’s driving stories
- How to reach consensus on what to make, what’s good, and where you’re going
Make Collaboration Happen, Even with Stubborn People
What You’ll Learn
- Embrace 6 collaborative behaviors
- Practice the "4 Virtues of Collaboration"
- Assess your mindset
- Be honest with yourself
Design Studio: Building Design Consensus Early in Your Process
What You’ll Learn
- Prepare for your Design Studio
- Kickoff your Design Studio
- Start with individual contributions
- Collaborate to identify which ideas are most important
Sketching for Understanding
What You’ll Learn
- Get started with sketching basics
- Critique in a way that brings out the best in everyone’s sketches
- Plan a collaborative Design Studio
- Run a productive Design Studio
Discussing Design
What You’ll Learn
- The intent of critique, plus how it can make us better communicators
- Make sense of opinions and shaping them into powerful design iterations
- Use goals to keep the critique on track and avoid personal opinions
- Facilitate discussions, even with difficult people
Discussing Design: The Art of Critique
What You’ll Learn
- Structure projects to include more feedback loops
- Listen to stakeholder comments with increased objectivity
- Separate problem solving from critical thinking
- Give and receive critiques differently, and for the better
Start Full Screen: Organize, Communicate, & Annotate HTML Prototypes
What You’ll Learn
- Build HTML prototypes and organize them systematically
- Break designs into small, reusable components
- Use an HTML prototype to communicate an entire experience
- Annotate and collaborate using basic markup
From PDFs to HTML Prototypes
What You’ll Learn
- Understand how and when HTML prototypes can fit into your design process
- Honestly assess your front-end coding skills and how you can progressively enrich your capabilities to make valuable contributions
- Recognize what you really need to prototype, balance it against other artifacts you’re creating, and identify when you’re spinning out of control
- Understand why in most successful projects, it’s not about the skills or deliverable, but about the process and collaboration with your teammates and stakeholders