This is the talk I gave in Dublin, Ireland at Interaction 12 describing how designers need to demystify their processes to improve team cohesion, collaboration and productivity.
#demystify | @jboogie Software development often feels like a circus looks like someone here got the wrong invitation http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wTiz7SEEdVU/TujhE7vzIUI/AAAAAAAADXw/z-NMHaEumhM/s400/skinny+man+in+body+building+contest+dr+heckle+funny+photo+blog.jpg
#demystify | @jboogie Mystery insulates designers keeps us warm in winter, cool in summer (well, all the time right?) http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/glasto062711/g38_17317374.jpg
Mystery
#demystify | @jboogie Ultimately, though, mystery is detrimental initially to the team, then the product and ultimately the company http://www.good.is/post/this-is-why-youre-fat/
#demystify | @jboogie The team separates into artificial silos which quickly degenerates into us vs. them http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Allegany_Township_silos.jpg/1024px-Allegany_Township_silos.jpg
#demystify | @jboogie There is no common language leaving both sides feeling misunderstood http://cdn.dipity.com/uploads/events/818f95254821e64f4fd97a1210fa3789_1M.png
#demystify | @jboogie Shuttle diplomacy pushes the project along puts the project manager in the middle http://cdn.dipity.com/uploads/events/818f95254821e64f4fd97a1210fa3789_1M.png
#demystify | @jboogie Without transparency there is no trust trust is core to the team’s success http://marpr23.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/2910831531_67dcd2bac5.jpg
#demystify | @jboogie This is nothing new the efficacy of collaboration is directly related to team cohesion The Role of Team and Task Characteristics in R & D Team Collaborative Problem Solving and Productivity Robert C. Dailey Management Science Vol. 24, No. 15 (Nov., 1978), pp. 1579-1588 http://www.jstor.org/pss/2630673 “the collaborative problem solving-productivity relationship was …shown [to be] sensitive to high and low levels for each of four predictors …task certainty, task interdependence, team size, and team cohesiveness.”
#demystify | @jboogie Designers must demystify the way we work the onus is on us http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dqo1MGA_oGE/Thz2w_UNvYI/AAAAAAAABF0/G0RjbeDKFP0/s1600/Dirty-Laundry.gif
#demystify | @jboogie Demystification is powerful it reveals the entire design process http://croatia.org/crown/content_images/2009/Croatian_Sausage_640.jpg
#demystify | @jboogie The team’s fingerprints will show up in the work they begin to own the work along with the designer http://www.clockhours.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/fingerprint-1.jpg
#demystify | @jboogie This won’t come easy – at first inevitably, we’ll get in our own way “The process laid out here — a delusion of happy collaboration between bean counters, stressed out clients and business minded account managers and, presumably, somewhere in the mix, designers — would be an unproductive clusterfuck for any capable designer. Input is one thing — valuable, in its place.
But clients want design to solve hard problems, and to solve them beautifully and brilliantly. Pandering to people on the team by earnestly seeking opinions and and then making sure those wayward, uninformed, and wrong opinions are manifest in the product dilutes quality.”
-jmaharry, october 15th, 2011 posted as a response to “demystifying design”on a list apart
#demystify | @jboogie Does this mean everyone is a designer? does this mean i’m no longer the hero? http://chicagocares.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/mural-painting.jpg
#demystify | @jboogie 2. Show raw work (frequently) maintain the perception of malleability of the work http://wireframes.linowski.ca/2009/02/rough-interface-sketching/
#demystify | @jboogie Fitts’ law the time required to rapidly move to a target area is a function of the distance of the target and the size of the target
Thank you #demystify | @jboogie @jboogie [email protected] amzn.to/leanuxbook www.jeffgothelf.com slideshare.net/jgothelf Jeff Gothelf I’m writing a book! Pre-order here
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