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Working with DevelopersFor Fun & ProfitJack Moffett | @jackmoffett Senior Interaction Designer Inmedius, a Boeing Company designaday.tumblr.com

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“The way we work at Apple is that the complexity of these products really makes it critical to work collaboratively, with different areas of expertise. I think that’s one of the things about my job I enjoy the most. I work with silicon designers, electronic and mechanical engineers, and I think you would struggle to determine who does what when we get together. We’re located together, we share the same goal, have exactly the same preoccupation with making great products.” !

Sir Jonathan Ive

Tight Integration

the board is misleading by snickclunk http://www.flickr.com/photos/snickclunk/4119284398/in/photostream/

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Bridges to Development

Bridges to DevelopmentRelationships (the soft skills)


Supporting Development



Documentation



Documentation

Comprehensive Participation



Documentation


Shared Tools



Documentation


Shared Tools

Implementing the UI

Relationships

Who We Work With

DO Not

Tug Of War by Tom Blackwell https://flic.kr/p/6pjYgc

https://flic.kr/p/6pjYgc

DO NotCritique engineering prototypes on aesthetics or usability.




Expect developers to have the same design sensibilities you have.





Force your process on the developers.





Force your process on the developers.

Expect developers to make last-minute changes just because you haven’t been involved until late in the process.



Yes Please

Green Ants by Kasi Metcalfe https://www.flickr.com/photos/kasimetcalfe/339113868

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kasimetcalfe/339113868

Yes PleasePosition your involvement as something that makes your developers’ jobs easier.




Be inclusive. It’s not our responsibility to make decisions so much as to offer options.





Dare to compromise.





Dare to compromise.

Find opportunities to educate.





Dare to compromise.

Find opportunities to educate.

Be social.



Relationships

“Have a beer with your engineer. You can accelerate trust and communication if someone feels you care about them as a person—and not just a set of skills that you rely on to realize a design vision.”

Jenna Bilotta – How Designers and Engineers Can Play Nice (and Still Run with Scissors)

Collaboration life cycle

65: Wellbeck College Mens Novice 8+ by Steve Selwood https://www.flickr.com/photos/8507625@N02/11122136456

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Requirements AnalysisDesignImplementationFunctional TestingUsability Testing




Requirements Analysis Design Implementation Functional Testing Usability Testing



Requirements

Develop a shared understanding of the requirements

Pre-game huddle by -just-jen- http://www.flickr.com/photos/whetzel/55214389/

“We’ve got to find a way to make this... fit into the hole for this... using nothing but that.”

Identify technical challenges

Identify technologies

The cup that can only be half-full. by vrogy http://www.flickr.com/photos/vrogy/511644410/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vrogy/511644410/

Estimate Time & Effort

“Ideally, the developers and I are to work closely together during the design phase... but it typically works out that they gloss over the document or attend a few meetings and get a basic understanding of what we are planning on doing, but never pay attention to the full details. Then they tend to come to me with questions or ‘are you crazy? I can’t do that!’ when it’s time for them to put together a timeline for their development assessment. After a few times of close calls, they are beginning to pay more attention to the pencil sketches and overall workflows we put together for them.”

By eflon http://www.flickr.com/photos/eflon/5079163335/

software bill of materials


How can we best prioritize our work to support the developers’ schedule?


A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. by katerha http://www.flickr.com/photos/katerha/5746905652/

Use their tools

http://www.flickr.com/photos/katerha/5746905652/

Issue Tracking

Issue Tracking Create items for each of your design tasks.

Developers can subscribe to the ones that relate to their own tasks.

Your estimates can be calculated in the burndown chart, or not.

Issue Tracking

Design

Design Documentation

One size fits all…. By The Candid Street http://www.flickr.com/photos/haddadi/5971508861/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/haddadi/5971508861/


Design the documentation for those that will wear it.


Design documentation to be a reference tool.

Always reference the requirements.

Be concise and explicit in your explanation.

Label screens effectively.

Be thorough.

Be consistent.

For the Client

For the Developers

Bill Scott

“The developers really appreciated it, because they could just look at it, and they didn’t have to wonder if the designer had forgotten something.”

Documentation is part of the design process.

Documentation is part of the design process.

You learn a lot by describing your design.

Questions?

Roberto Clemente Bridge in Pittsburgh by Brook Ward https://flic.kr/p/dAWcYQ

Jack Moffett | @jackmoffett Senior Interaction Designer Inmedius, a Boeing Company [email protected] designaday.tumblr.com

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1. State of the Industry 2. Looking for Group 3. Collaboration Life Cycle 4. Why HTML and CSS? 5. Tooling Up 6. Formatting Standards 7. OOCSS 8. Owning Behavior 9. Looking Toward the Horizon

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Thank You!Jack Moffett | @jackmoffett Senior Interaction Designer Inmedius, a Boeing Company [email protected] designaday.tumblr.com


working with developers for fun and profit

Design

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soft skillsbridges

design sensibilities

oer options

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krp6pjygcyes pleasegreen

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