Joining Forces: An Epic Process for Designers and Developers

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Joining Forces An Epic Process For Designers And Developers Chris Ford, Project Manager at Reaktiv Studios | @ci_chrisford

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True Confessions Star Wars Version This is the ﬁrst and last time I ever saw a Star Wars movie. I was 6, it was 1977, my Dad’s shorts were VERY short, our appliances were Avocado Green, and my glitter R2D2 and C3PO shirt was from the iron on t-shirt store at the mall. That is the story behind why, even though I always try to theme my talks to match the WordCamp that I am going to skip trying to make this themed because all I would do is make the fan-folks incensed. You’re welcome ;)

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Project Overview Work with the Atlassian Design Team to build a new corporate blog.

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I Atlassian A leader in diversity and inclusion https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook/plays/balanced-teams

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I Atlassian Excellent content focusing on project management, teamwork, collaboration, productivity and leadership

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I Atlassian Company values I can get behind.

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I Atlassian Leader in designer and developer collaboration. invisionapp.com/talks/atlassiancollab

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#SolopreneurLife

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My Personal Mission Statement I want to do work that matters, with people I like, where design is valued.

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Challenges of working with other people 1 Variety of skill levels 2 Anticipating others’ intent 3 Communicating your intent 4 Paying attention to nuance

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Team solutions to working with other people 1 Commitment to mentoring 2 Assuming good intentions 3 Over communicating 4 Respecting everyone’s unique abilities

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Personal solutions to working with other people 1 Know what you don’t know 2 Work with people you like 3 Be trustworthy 4 Learn to delegate

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Cruelty is cheap, easy, and chickenshit. —Brené Brown

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Good communication requires 1 Regular, focused meetings 2 A shared vocabulary 3 Organized design assets 4 Clear documentation

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Regular focused meetings Meeting don’t have to suck. Seriously. 1 Kill meetings that could be emails 2 Have an agenda 3 Nobody ever complained about a meeting ending early.

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Shared vocabulary How can you communicate without knowing what you’re talking about?

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Organized design assets I love this designer so, so much right now.

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What about cross platform teams? Don’t have Sketch? Use Zeplin!

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Clear documentation Because six months from now people will forget things.

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Atomic Design FTW 1 Build components, not pages 2 Makes content portable and ﬂexible 3 The Block Editor is already modular 4 Separate functional and visual QA

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The only dumb mistake is the one you make more than once. —Chris Ford Iterate and Improve

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Thanks for listening Questions? Let’s talk at the Happiness Bar! Chris Ford, Project Manager | @ci_chrisford