Collaboration
Work more productively with team members, stakeholders, clients and anyone else.
Articles
Winning teams over through your design deliverables
UX Matters
– 11 May 2020
Tactics to help stakeholders and team members understand and support your design ideas.
How to give and receive a good design critique
AIGA
– 6 March 2020
As designers, we don’t design in a vacuum. A good designer will need to learn to take the feedback from their peers, clients, and bosses to solve a particular design problem.
A brief guide to design feedback
– 20 February 2020
The goal of this document is to establish consistent guidelines for giving and receiving feedback on design, as well as reviewing and approving design as a group.
The diverge-and-converge technique for UX workshops
– 15 December 2019
By first working independently on a problem, then converging to share insights, teams can leverage the benefits of both work styles, leading to rapid data analysis, diverse ideas, and high-quality designs.
Generous design is the way forward: 3 keys to transparency
Abstract
– 22 November 2019
To build superior products at scale, combine a classic business toolset with an open and transparent mindset.
Progressive design in the Abstract
Medium
– 16 October 2019
Using Abstract to version control sketch files, collaborate on designs, and maintain a source of truth for final designs to be implemented.
How do you keep people updated with what is being worked on?
JAM London
– 6 September 2019
With new product decisions happening constantly, how do you keep people updated with what is being worked on? How do you find the balance between over-documenting and keeping everyone well informed?
How your team can solve a customer problem in just 8 minutes
AO Tech
– 5 August 2019
This article explores a workshopping technique which helps teams find simple, elegant solutions to the projects they’re working on.
Abstracting the Microsoft Outlook design process
– 22 May 2019
How Abstract improved file organization and collaboration in our design team.
Only one deliverable matters
Big Medium
– 16 October 2018
Detailed wireframes, high-fidelity comps, and motion prototypes all got enshrined as critical deliverables. Those design artifacts are unimportant. Only one deliverable matters: the product itself.
Promoting collaboration in UX, design, and content teams
Inside Design by InVision
– 14 August 2018
We all know how important collaboration is, but how many of us actually collaborate effectively with our teams?
A practical guide to running effective design critiques
– 13 January 2017
Have you ever left a design critique feeling defeated and less excited about your work? Or frustrated because you didn’t get the type of feedback you were looking for?
Effective Collaboration: How to Design Work Sessions that Work
UX Booth
– 27 June 2016
Collaboration sounds great—until someone schedules another aimless “brainstorming” meeting. Bringing diverse people together can unleash their collective powers, but it takes more than a white board and Post-its.
How UX Professionals Collaborate on Deliverables
– 3 January 2016
Creating and refining UX deliverables is typically not a solitary act, and we frequently see UX professionals working with other team members to create documentation and design artifacts.
20 ways to make your design critiques more effective
– 5 March 2015
Design critiques are a critical part of the iterative design process, but all too often they are poorly thought out, poorly structured and poorly run. Here are 20 simple ways to make your design critiques more effective.
The Importance of Collaborative UX Design
Our experts discuss the best ways to collaborate with stakeholders—whether internal or external—and customers—and why collaboration is so important.
Design Criticism and the Creative Process
A List Apart
– 11 January 2011
What does the critique do for the design and the rest of the project? Do critiques really help and are they necessary? If so, how do we use this feedback to improve our creative output?
Resources
CMD Methods Pack
This pack supports your design research planning in any communication and media design (CMD) project.
Critiquing Design
What if design critique didn’t suck? What if it actually improved design and fostered inclusion instead?
Futuremaker's Toolbox
Are you missing a long-term goal? This toolbox will help you to outline the future and build a vision towards a better tomorrow.
Hyper Island Toolbox
A resource kit you can use to apply creative collaboration and unleash potential in your team or organization.
Initiate.Collaborate
A card game that takes players through a series of practical, guided activities and exercises that are crafted to delight, surprise, and at times challenge.
NOBL Academy
NOBL Academy is our library of tools, case studies, essays, and trainings designed to help you bring your culture together during an unprecedented time of uncertainty.
Open Design Kit
A living collection of guides and best practices to help you to make and design openly.
Project of How
Project of How is a place to store and share creative methods. We dare you to improve your creative output.
The Teamwork Kit
A collection of methods that helps teams build trust and deliver great work together.
Tools
Notion
All-in-one workspace. Write, plan, collaborate, and get organized. Notion is all you need — in one tool.
