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Design Con- sistency, Craft, Efficiency, and
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I’m really tired

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But, I want 
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Design—fun, but also very hard Not enough time Not enough budget Client’s sister’s cousin’s brother’s boyfriend thinks’s it’s silly Nobody agrees on anything

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Perspective Tallwave is an Agency I’m a Design Team Lead at Tallwave

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Business jargon!

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—Johnny Appleseed “Do you have bandwidth to wireframe that user story?”

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MAKE 23 ANNOTATED WIRES BY TOMORROW
 AND ATTEND 13 MEETINGS, THERE’S PLENTY OF TIME BANDWIDTH UNICORN SAYS

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Your PM is your BFF

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Internal Initiatives

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Design Process

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Projects Kickoffs – Internal & External Design Studios Design Sprints (Map out goals end to end) Regular meetings–but not too many (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ Be flexible

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Design Studio Work on a specific problem Everyone works individually for 30–45m Everyone shares their ideas Then, everyone works on it again!

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iPevo Point 2+ InVision Boards

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Recommended reading Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams By Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden

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Tools and Craft

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Tools have always been expensive.

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Free and cheap stuff I use Building responsive grids 2 Main color tools Accessibility

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LOL

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Designer rant This is something I think about a lot It’s something I’m guilty of as well It’s going to take all of us to fix this

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Please stop using Lorem Ipsum

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Type is content, not graphix

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Use real text Use real text to set body text If you don’t have content, use the classics I have a soft spot for Charles Dickens Set a maximum line length for everything

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When to break the rules with grids You must know the technology you’re designing for When you know the rules

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Recommended reading The Elements of Typographic Style By Robert Bringhurst

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Sip and ColorHexa

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Accessibility

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Sketch+Abstract Version Control for Designers Distributed Design (Blame!) (Real) Iteration Feedback within Version Control (Historical context) Libraries within Projects

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If we have time Let’s live on the edge a little bit

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Abstract gotcha’s Save, Commit, Merge Have a Lead Agree on a workflow

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Peace out, people Twitter: @paulvantuyl Email: [email protected] tallwave.com pvt.design