Working remotely can feel creatively isolating. Switching from a brick-and-mortar agency, to pants-optional sounds awesome—but if you’re accustomed to joining a coworker at the whiteboard, to hammer out a UI concept over marker fumes, you’ll agree the back and forth in GitHub/Slack channels doesn’t cut it. In this talk, I’ll share how a work-from-home team overcomes technical and social hurdles, to mirror natural, in-person creative ideation (sketching, wireframing, etc.) with a mashup of hardware and cloud tools. This talk is best for teams allowing or considering telework, as well as professionals who want to impress their clients when presenting online.

1. War Room Collaboration
Across the Internet Canyon
WordCamp Baltimore 2015 • #wcbalt • @anthonydpaul

2. typical agency

3. work from home

4. fear = culture

5. fear = value and transparency

6. fear = creative collaboration

7. There and back again

8. Not only does it work…
Universal lessons on communicating better

9. Anthony D Paul
Director of User Experience

10. digital
“whiteboarding”
overview
of tools

11. emotional
connection
culture = body language, intonation, gestures

13. front-facing camera ipevo (crane camera) snowball mic

15. shared
understanding
value and transparency = project management

20. creative collaboration = all of the above
organic, tactile,
improvisational

22. Example 1 - Flow Diagrams
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sxxwq5EFW-87xGzCjiIxICeaPPXV6Ur8Kk9aD1jPils/edit?usp=sharing

23. Example 2 - Remote Interview Tool
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dXZTfvNx26nFEacTsZRDzO259yIF1uWTHNJ8hBIHHyE/edit?usp=sharing

24. Example 3 - Wireframes with IXD Concepts
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Fi0VO0u7udDJcPzVxXP3VR8gRTQdQDWW1UxfCQfANkw/edit?usp=sharing

25. Example 4 - Sketching Studio
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lvoLAri9pkm1DdyCYKM2M-Oqt8iJWwUoChK1WSWqaWY/edit?usp=sharing

26. 1. What type of content do
we need to interact with?
2. What type of interaction
do we need to facilitate?
break your tools

27. what’s next?

29. wake.io

30. Year Without Pants, Scott Berkun
http://is.gd/YUAw1C
WeWorkRemotely
https://weworkremotely.com
WordPress Slack
https://make.wordpress.org/chat/
(my site and blog)
http://adp.rocks or http:// .ws
Thank you
@anthonydpaul