Designing at breakneck speed

Designing at breakneck speedAnand Nair . Cucumbertown. @anandgrafiti

Idealism vs Pragmatism

Credits: Scott Adam

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Embrace the “Push” culture

It’s about speed of delivering and evaluating assumptions early

There will never be a 100% fool-proof prototype. Do just enough to get the ball rolling

Tools does not matter as long as you are able to communicate the ideas to the team

Make them really visible

Prototypes does not always need to convey an interface

Stories help everyone connect the dots

Quality effort spent on a high fidelity wireframe ensures faster visdesign and development

Nobody likes to write documentation. Nobody will ever read them too!

Productivity and collaboration tools are great to document random thought and ideas

Document components and not pages or atomic elements

Feedbacks are good. Get your work constantly reviewed

Explore focus groups and communities where you could validate your concepts

Seek timely opinions from experts

Create a parking lot for ideas

Find time to take a step back and evaluate the parts you built to see how they fit together

Even the giants make inconsistant patterns. You might be making them too

Being hands-on enables faster execution and less iteration; more power to the designer

Things to rememberIts a participatory game. Everyone can design

Be the enabler

Establish the idea first, next the design

Prototype early and often

Being hands on gives more control over your designs

Designing at speed means being nimble and less dogmatic in your design philosophy

Thank you!anand@cucumbertown.com . @anandgrafiti