Great work usually doesn’t come from operating in a vacuum. Over the last few months, many designers have been forced to adjust their work styles, tools, and collaboration practices to a very different way of working. While remote work has garnered a lot of attention recently due to COVID-19, it is undoubtedly a key piece of future success. Are you and your design team collaborating well and making effective progress? Or do you feel like you’re spinning your wheels in too many Zoom meetings and Slack conversations?
Join GA, Atlassian and Trello for a virtual panel discussion on Remote Collaboration & Brainstorming in Design. Our expert panel will share the strategies and tactics they’ve adapted to ensure smooth collaboration processes and run engaging remote brainstorming sessions. They’ll dive into how they’re bringing stakeholders to the virtual table and how they’ve improved their overall productivity with direct team members and beyond.
Whether you are a remote contributor or leading a distributed team, you will learn effective techniques to engage and collaborate in a way that won’t leave anyone hanging out to dry.
About the Panelists:
Carmen McDonald
Product Design Lead (UX), CDW | Design Leadership Forum Member, InVision
"Carm” has had a love affair with all things design as early as she could remember. Formally trained in Architecture, she transitioned into Web & Graphic Design and as her career progressed, she found herself immersed in Information Architecture and later User Experience Design. Active in Chicago's tech and design communities, she is Co-Founder of DesignTech, teaches UX Design courses part-time at General Assembly and offers UX mentoring at 1871. Carmen also serves as an advisory board member for ITA's Women Influence Chicago initiative.
Nick Hahn
Design Team Lead,
IBM Design
Nick is a futurist, technology evangelist, and Design Thinking expert, who has been at the forefront of where education, design and engineering meet to solve real world problems. Having previously founded his own startups, he’s now the Design Lead for an enterprise software team at IBM Design, where he helps build next generation experiences and evangelize IBM Design Thinking throughout IBM.
He also loves to share his what he has learned with others and 3 years ago launched Austin Spark League, a program aimed at connecting teenagers with their passions in design, programming, and entrepreneurship. From this he was invited to serve on the SXSW Edu Advisory Board.
Nick has 15 years of experience in a broad range of fields from advertising, user experience design, digital strategy, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and the startup space. In his heart, he is a true nerd with passions from user center design, gaming, cars, wearables, and lean startups.
Jannis Hegenwald
Designer,
Trello/Atlassian
Jannis is a senior designer at Atlassian & Trello, where he is working on tools that help teams around the world get more done. Before joining Atlassian, Jannis was a consultant, developing design strategies for clients like Mercedes-Benz, Experian, Dell, and Samsung. Jannis enjoys sharing his experiences and has held talks and workshops in Germany, Japan, Switzerland, and the U.S.
Cristina Crespo
Associate Director, Product Experience Delivery,
frog