I gave a talk at an Agile UX meetup about the process I try to use to quickly build MVP and design sites while pairing with programmers and stakeholders.

1. My Ingredients
~Van Shea Sedita~
UX Design & Creative Direction
@vanshea #myingredients

2. Since 1999, I've worked with some very
thorough, very creative and highly skilled
programmers

3. Sometimes we've
seen things differently

4. In the past..
I've focused too often on
making beautiful things

5. In my experience, developers seem to
focus on making interesting things

6. beautiful vs. interesting?

7. Memorable and delightful experiences
are both beautiful & interesting

8. "The practice of creating engaging,
efficient user experiences is called
user centered design."
~Jesse James Garrett,
"The Elements of User Experience Design"

9. $
I am always trying to save businesses
and myself..

10. The 4 "ingredients" I use to design:

11. 1. Sketching

12. Newsprint and marker sketch

13. 2. Photoshop

14. Using Layer Comps
Establish the design

15. Very Very.. Very
Basic Style Guide

16. 3. Markup (Espresso)

17. CSS
Style Reminders

18. 4. Chrome's Inspect Element tool

19. In Browser Design

21. Team Collaboration: Responsive Decisions

22. 99% of the beautiful & interesting
things I've helped design have not been
concepted by me alone

23. Many times, a developer has succeeded
in advancing the UX through
suggesting improvements to user flows,
copywriting or visual design

24. Team Collaboration: SignUp Process

25. "Usually my input comes in normalization and
dealing with dynamic content.
So consistent headers/footers/nav, regular
placement of buttons, etc.
Stuff that becomes obvious when you're coding
something but might not be so clear in pure
design.
The dynamic content thing is something every
designer seems to struggle with..."
Justin Fargione,
CTO Get Maid

26. As the user advocate, my work can't be
precious and should always stay open
to discussion and change.

27. ~ Thank You ~