Design talk presented at What Do You Know in Melbourne regarding co-design at Envato. www.webdirections.org/events/wdyk-melb-apr2014/ https://twitter.com/search?q=%23wdyk&src=typd https://twitter.com/damirkotoric

1. Design by Community
Co-design at Envato

2. What is co-design?

3. Designing for people
with

4. …and why would you do that?

6. Transparency and Democratisation

9. Operation Faceted Search
A focus group of 20 people tasked with the mission of designing an
awesome faceted search system on Envato Marketplaces.
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10 Community Members (Users) + 10 Staff Members

11. 5 Tasks
1. Survey
2. Mood Board
3. Information Architecture
4. Interface Design
5. Video Chat
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Regular collaboration over Google+ Communities and Hangouts

12. Interface Design
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17. My advice
Choose your tools carefully (2-3 max). Trello is awesome. Google is OK.
Pick passionate user and keep the focus group small (no more than 10-15)
It will take a lot of your time (about 1/3 of mine). Be prepared.
Split the design apart into pieces and only show low-fi wireframes
Kindly explain that your role is to say “no” a lot
Create a timeline with clear milestones
It’s not design by committee

18. What’s next?

19. Design by Community
Co-design at Envato.
Presented by Damir Kotoric (@damirkotoric)
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Public domain icons courtesy of www.thenounproject.com
Community designed by Michael Rowe from the Noun Project
Reichstag exterior photo by Ross Huggett via Flickr
Reichstag interior photo by Andos_pics via Flickr