The workshop is interactive, with hands-on exercises as well as presentation of design techniques, principles, and a lightweight process for incorporating design into development. You'll learn how to create your team's customized recipe for great design, choosing the techniques that work well for your circumstances.

The focus is on interaction design, design thinking techniques, and innovation, not aesthetics and layout. We’ll discuss how to facilitate design meetings, reach group decisions, probe user work and task flows, fit design tasks to those flows, and use that understanding as a basis to foster innovation through better interactions with users. You'll help your team enter production coding with fewer blind alleys, backtrack, and rework. Some exercises will be in groups – bring others on your team if you would like to experience this workshop together.