Design Con-
sistency, Craft,
Efficiency, and
Cat Memes
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I’m really tired
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But, I want
to make really
good things
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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: paul.vantuyl@tallwave.com
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