Adobe XD Team

The XD Best practices session at Max was quite interesting. A member of Adobes XD team spoke. Their framework broke things down into 3 areas: Team; Process and Principles. Go to their site at xd.adobe.com.

Team
1. Emphasis Making
* Deconstructing
* Generalist over Specialist
* Wholistic
2. Promote Trust and Freedom
3. Have Fun
* Personality and Fit are critical

Process
1. Communication is Critical
2. Process isn’t that important
3. Five ways to work (rules)

• Simplify the problem
• Trust your instincts
• Share everything
• Fail Fast (to succeed sooner)
• We are peers before the Object

Principles (How to Work):
Useful -> Usable -> Desirable (eg. washing machines)

4 Cornerstones:
What is the Point?
* Have a clear design objective
* Task first
* Keep it simple
* Focus and Emphasis

Content is King
* Content before Chrome
* Provide flexibility
* Enable direct manipulation

Create an Experience not an Interface
* Create a spark
* Make it personal
* Just enough is more
* Respond, don’t dictate
* Respect design objective

Choreograph, Sequence and Flow
* Design is a whole
* Establish hierarchy
* Motion has meaning
* Guide and orient
* Preserve context
* Be consistent

Team collaboration tools

Team communication and project management tool options…

pbwiki – Free means to create a wiki: collaborative website workspace that multiple people can edit together and share files and documents
This would be a great way to document projects and also log wisdom that would otherwise be trapped in a head (How to set up CVS, etc.)

Basecamp – $ Project mgmt/communication

Chat client aggregators
Trillian Basic/$Pro – PC (Mac beta)
Adium – Mac

SubEthaEdit – collaborative document creation
Looking for a text editor that is designed by people actually caring about Human Interface Guidelines? A nice way to edit your HTML files? Or a way to work together on code, texts or notes?

Google Docs – Shareable online word and spreadsheet apps.

Twitter – Broadcast texting to/from group via mobile/chat/web site

Please post other suggestions in the comments.