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Being a designer at a statup is all about being nimble and less dogmatic in your design outlook. Here is a take at common situations and workarounds for designers working on fast paced agile environments.
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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 [email protected] . @anandgrafiti