Design is Made of People: Designing Effective Work Sessions
Date: Tuesday, August 12
Time: 2:00 - 5:00PM
Track: workshop
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In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Plan work sessions for maximum effectiveness
- Design effective work session activities
- Select appropriate materials for your activities
- Choose how to find a good location and then how to set it up
- Compose groups to encourage collaboration
- Decide when you should and shouldn’t collaborate
- Encourage participation
The role of the designer has always been fluid, but now, more than ever, our profession is evolving. Increasingly, designers need to work closely with content experts, business stakeholders, developers and others who, while not necessarily trained designers, have a critical role to play in the design process. Skills in facilitation, visualization and work session design are therefore a powerful compliment to your core design skills. This workshop will introduce you to these basics skills and prepare you to design your own effective work sessions.
Because there is no better way to learn effective work-session design strategies than by experiencing them yourself, this workshop will provide you with an intense immersion into work session design and facilitation. You will first break into groups to tackle a design problem. This will be followed by a discussion period where you and your colleagues will talk about what you learned and your presenters will share a primer on basic work session design. Finally, you will break into groups and design your own activities.
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Julia
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We're looking forward to having you in our workshop, Design is Made of People: Designing Effective Work Sessions, at UX Week next week! We're excited to share with you what we've learned about facilitating and designing work sessions here at Adaptive Path. We have lots of great activities planned and we're excited for you to leave with a toolkit that you can take back to your work. Before the workshop, we'd like to get you thinking about a couple of things. We'll be discussing these during the workshop and you will build a work session to do when you go back to work:
* What would you like to get out of this session?
* Is there a work session you know you would like to conduct at your company, or with your clients? If so, what outcome would you like to have from the work session you conduct?
Logistics:
When is the workshop? Tuesday, August, 12 from 2-5pm
Quick change to the note here: We're not sure which room we're going to be in, but we'll let you know as soon as we know.
There will be about 40 people in this session, and we ask that you don't sit with people you know, if you're attending the conference with co-workers or pals.
Also, we'd like to share with you the essay Sarah wrote about work sessions called "Get Out from Behind the Curtain":
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/getoutfrombehindthecurtain/
See you Tuesday!
Best,
Julia & Sarah
The workshop was very useful! I would love to have access to the slides that Sarah and Julia showed us during the workshop. Can you possibly send them to me, or publish them somewhere? (janniche.oyen at avenir.no)
As a member of a very small UX team (often a set of single-person UX departments, really), I find that I sometimes need to take over in product definition meetings. A repertoire of exercises to deploy in these situations would be nice, but how much better to also be able to relate how it could be done more fully while leading others into the light.