Designing Together Apart - BDConf DC 2015

Whether you call yourself a designer or a developer or a strategist or something else, the work we do is creative work. Many teams are now doing this work from multiple locations, spread out across cities, states and even countries. In this session we’ll look at the fundamental building blocks for creative work, and how you can create and nurture these things whether you’re working together in the same room, or in teams spread out across the world.

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1. Designing Together Apart
   Jared Ponchot // BDConf DC 2015 // @jponch
   

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4. The bare essentials
   

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7. Creative work essentials
   

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8. You do creative work!
   

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9. 2+2
   

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10. Insight
    Energy
    Focus
    

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13. The eureka myth
    

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14. Insights
    

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15. Research
    

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16. Space
    

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17. Helpful constraints
    

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18. Some is better than none.
    

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19. 51
    Company Employees
    INTERVIEWED
    21+
    Hours Invested
    INTERVIEWING
    15
    Depts./Disciplines
    REPRESENTED
    +
    

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20. Fascination
    

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24. Curiosity
    

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26. No reward
    

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30. What does it mean?
    

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32. Creatives are pro-choice
    

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33. GROUP 1

    no choice, no reward
    GROUP 2

    no choice, reward
    GROUP 3

    choice, no reward
    GROUP 4

    choice, reward
    

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34. GROUP 1

    no choice, no reward
    GROUP 2

    no choice, reward
    GROUP 3

    choice, no reward
    GROUP 4

    choice, reward
    

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35. The power of insights
    

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36. Flat communication
    

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37. Be intentional
    

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38. 5:15
    

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39. Ask good questions
    

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40. What’s gone well lately?
    What’s been challenging?
    What are you learning?
    What are you excited about?
    What’s 1 way I could make your life better?
    

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41. Energy
    

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43. You-shaped spaces
    

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49. The collaboration myth
    

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51. vs.
    

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52. Focus
    

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58. Here be Dragons!
    

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63. Critique
    

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65. Critique is for insights
    

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66. Critique is for insights
    

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67. Build trust
    

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68. LO ERS
    VIRGINIA IS FOR
    

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69. LO ERS
    DESIGN IS FOR
    

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70. Thanks!
    @jponch or jared@lullabot.com
    

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