Design by Community

Presented by Damir Kotoric from Envato, at What Do You Know, Melbourne.

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1. Design by Community Co-design at Envato
2. What is co-design?
3. Designing for people with
4. …and why would you do that?
6. Transparency and Democratisation
9. Operation Faceted Search A focus group of 20 people tasked with the mission of designing an awesome faceted search system on Envato Marketplaces. ! 10 Community Members (Users) + 10 Staff Members
11. 5 Tasks 1. Survey 2. Mood Board 3. Information Architecture 4. Interface Design 5. Video Chat + Regular collaboration over Google+ Communities and Hangouts
12. Interface Design +
17. My advice Choose your tools carefully (2-3 max). Trello is awesome. Google is OK. Pick passionate user and keep the focus group small (no more than 10-15) It will take a lot of your time (about 1/3 of mine). Be prepared. Split the design apart into pieces and only show low-fi wireframes Kindly explain that your role is to say “no” a lot Create a timeline with clear milestones It’s not design by committee
18. What’s next?
19. Design by Community Co-design at Envato. Presented by Damir Kotoric (@damirkotoric) ! Public domain icons courtesy of www.thenounproject.com Community designed by Michael Rowe from the Noun Project Reichstag exterior photo by Ross Huggett via Flickr Reichstag interior photo by Andos_pics via Flickr