Dismantle Your Workflow and Live to Tell the Story

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Dan Rose @dblizzy

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Double Ristretto Venti Half- Soy Nonfat Decaf Organic Chocolate Brownie Iced Vanilla Double-Shot Gingerbread Frappuccino Extra Hot With Foam Whipped Cream Upside Down Double Blended, One Sweet'N Low and One Nutrasweet. and Ice.

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Companies like   predictable processes

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the most dangerous phrase in the language is ‘we’ve always done it this way’. “ GRACE HOPPER

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mood boards & visual inventories

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pattern libraries & style guides

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there’s arguably no better time in web design’s history to pioneer change than right now.

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the creative process is fueled by disruption

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I move shapes around until they make sense “ WHAT DOES A DESIGNER DO? JARED ERONDU

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dismantle:  to destroy something in an methodical way

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dis-mantle:  to remove something from an actual mantle

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How to Do It Anyways getting started winning people over damage control

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getting the ball rolling

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1. frippery INTRODUCE THINGS LOUDLY AND WITH FANFARE

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it’s not official until you put it on the internet.

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2. proxy CONVINCE A HIGHER-UP TO CHAMPION YOUR CAUSE

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3. Guerrilla tactics INTRODUCE THINGS QUIETLY AND INCONSPICUOUSLY

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confusion about who’s accountable for what stepping on each others toes initial profit losses anger delight

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winning people over

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1. offer painkillers IDENTIFY EXISTING WORKFLOW PAIN POINTS

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You’re more likely to get new workflow buy-in when it’s attached to an organizational initiative

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give away the best parts of your process

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2. set expectations EXPLAIN THE PURPOSE OF EVERYTHING

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moving from a hard approval process to course correction

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Pull stakeholders into your process. You really have to work hard to take the mystery out of your design methodology. RYAN SHAFER, MTV “

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Towards the end, we technically didn’t really have an approval process because people were just so ingrained in every single step down the line that it more became a question of “How comfortable are we all with the current state?” RYAN SHAFER, MTV “