If you're not working closely with engineering, your design could end up on the cutting room floor. Learn how to evangelize design across your organization—and avoid that terrible fate.

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2. Good afternoon! I’m Josh.
I’m @joshteague of @fullstory.

4. Engaging engineering
in design.
Here come the neckbeards.

5. Two things this afternoon.
Quick definition of “design”.
Putting it to use with engineering teams.
+ Q&A #invisionwebinar

6. What is design?

7. Problem solving!
What is design?

8. Iterative problem solving!
What is design?

9. Creativity is just
connecting things.
What’s creativity?
— Steve Jobs

10. Creativity is just connecting things.
When you ask creative people how they
did something, they feel a little guilty
because they didn’t really do it, they just
saw something. It seemed obvious to
them after a while.
What’s creativity?
— Steve Jobs

11. Creativity is just connecting things.
When you ask creative people how they
did something, they feel a little guilty
because they didn’t really do it, they just
saw something. It seemed obvious to
them after a while.
What’s creativity?
— Steve Jobs

12. Iterative problem solving!
What is design?

13. Iterative problem solving
for users.
What is design?

14. Iterative problem solving
for users humans.
What is design?

17. As somebody once said: It's kind of
arrogant to think the only reason
people exist is to use what you built.
They actually have lives, like, outside
the experience they have using your
product, and so the first step of
designing in a human-centered way
is to recognize that they're humans.
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— Margaret Stewart, Facebook

18. Iterative problem solving
for humans.
What is design?

20. Iterative problem solving
for humans.
What is design?

25. Iterative problem solving
for humans.
What is design?

26. Iterative problem solving
for human need & desire.
What is design?

27. Working with Engineers.

28. Sit with them.

29. Engage sooner.
Get “real” as fast as you can.

30. ENGAGE

31. Know your back-end
engineer extremely well.

32. Provide the right kind
of deliverables.

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38. Regularly commit teh codez.

41. Invite them in.
And drop in on their meetings, too.

46. Never “hand off”.

48. Encourage flags.

51. Get cozy with constraints.

53. Make decisions just-in-time.

54. Always be painting a picture.

55. A design process that
includes, informs, and pushes
engineering throughout is a
better one.

58. Thanks!

59. Questions?
www.joshteague.com
josh@fullstory.com
@joshteague / @fullstory

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