Developers don’t want to be designers, but I think most of them do want to be better developers. Incorporating design thinking into software development yields higher value apps, more satisfied users, and better personal reputation. In this session, developers and other non-design team members can learn essentials and walk out with some tangible techniques and skills to immediately start addressing routine app design. The focus is on interaction design and user-centric design, 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 evaluate designs to enter production coding with fewer blind alleys, backtrack, and rework.

You will learn:

• The value of design thinking for teams and organizations
• Hear about ways to discuss doing better design with managers above you
• Techniques, processes, and principles to perform design thinking throughout the software development process