Dan Mall on Responsive Design Workflow (June 25th, 2018, Toronto)

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In this workshop, Dan will share insights into his tools and techniques for integrating design thinking into your product development process. You’ll learn how to craft powerful design approaches through collaborative brainstorming techniques, and how to involve your entire team in the design process.

The price below is in USD.

A lot of time goes into building responsive sites, partly because we’re all still finding our way. Many of us are still trapped in the high-fidelity, multi-comp process where we spend weeks preparing and pitching to clients in order to identify a suitable visual direction for projects. But we’re often missing out on new opportunities to cover lots of ground quickly, preserving project time and budget for other areas that really need it.

In this workshop, you'll learn:

1) Introduce a collaborative, team-based design approach

Increase your team’s efficiency and remove the overhead of heavy design deliverables
Brainstorm ideas for a real-world design project using divergent and convergent approaches
Write your product’s value proposition to immediately get your project on track

2) Establish success criteria for your design projects

Use Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Jobs-to-be-Done, and other frameworks to align
Use the KJ Technique, a collaborative prioritization method, to define project goals
Get the design juices flowing using familiar elements of the Design Studio method

3) Assemble, sketch, and code your team’s design approaches

Use the “3Cs” (Create, Collect, and Code) framework for team ideation and collaboration
Create element collages, an assembly of disparate design elements, to communicate ideas
Learn to effectively articulate your design ideas through a mini demo day

4) Iterate and converge on a design solution that addresses a real-world problem

Use Pinterest boards, element collages, and prototypes to present and critique multiple design ideas
Work collaboratively as a team to iterate and refine your design
Sell the power of a collaborative design workflow to the people who matter most in your organization

We want you to spend your effort in the parts of the design process that pack the most punch. We promise you’ll look at your design process differently and immediately be able to see ways to trim the fat.

This workshop is appropriate for all experience levels. This workshop is for designers, art directors, creative directors, developers, project managers, and anyone else who believes that responsive web design doesn’t have to have a million comps.