s&t pair up suckaz 070417
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PAIR UP SUCKAZ!
Consistent, unified design systems make our lives easier.
But we have our own voices, styles and approaches.
It’s hard to believe I know, but sometimes we don’t agree.
DESIGNERS ARE PEOPLE
WHICH PINK IS THE BEST PINK?(Which pink do I like the most?)
A B
VSTEGAN
DAN
In the way that work - feature by feature, story by story - it can be hard to maintain consistency in design thinking.
Valid ideas never get the chance to be considered as a route has already been chosen by whoever is implementing the story.
EL PROBLEMO
“COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACE”
LOL :-) It’s an big bit of paper that we draw on.
15 minutes max
Sketch as many ideas as possible
Quantity not quality (of output)
Edit ideas afterwards not during
THE DEAL
INSTEADOF THIS…
YOU GETTHIS…
THE RESULT
Collaborative thinking that unlocks solutions we might not have come to on our own.
It also shines a spotlight on potential points of disagreement at an early stage. No more getting to review and realising we
were on different pages all along.
BUT…
Once you have an idea, keeping things in sync is just as tricky.
The dev team have GIT and Github.
new newest design final FINAL! FINAL? v273 revision update 180516 is this really the right one? I’m not sure of anything anymore. Please help me someone
Final.sketch
The design team have…
ABSTRACT
www.abstractapp.com Version control for design
A new tool in private alpha built by people sick of overwriting each other’s designs, corrupting files by opening them on two machines at once and not knowing which version is the final
final final.
It’s built on a customised version of GIT so we can start to bring our design workflow in line with the dev one.
ABSTRACT
Branches / Reviews / Versioning - All the stuff the cool kids already have
• Does what it says on the tin - versions design files
• Visual record of changes with accompanying notes and history
• Pretty robust even for an alpha
• Simple but effective review tools built in to Abstract
PROS
• Doesn’t store files locally
• Files have to be opened via Abstract to get the versioning
• Web app is non-functional at the mo
• Mac only
• Sketch only
CONS
More pairing, earlier on in the process
Bring our previous designs into Abstract
Document/codify the system so everyone* can work with it
Ensure we make the ‘final’ files available outside of Abstract
Keep pushing for a cross-platform solution
WHAT’S NEXT?
*everyone on a Mac anyway
My presentations are now officially middle-aged :-)
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