- Doing UX design work remotely,
is not always a breeze.
Many of us struggle with communication,
collaboration, and productivity within our teams.
We asked some attendees from our virtual UX conferences,
to share their best tips for working remotely.
- We have two dailies a day.
Well, we have 30 minutes,
that are just saved for me and the team.
Some days we use it,
some days we don't use it.
But we all have it in our schedule.
So maybe we don't have any news, we just say,
hey, no news on my end,
no news on my end.
And everyone just keeps on working.
But maybe I have news, or maybe someone
in the team has something that happened.
So we just, hey, I need the meeting today.
So we know that day, we all go into the meeting
- Try to integrate people in some ways
that they are not really working on.
So for example, when you are in the office
you sometimes walk and somebody says like,
hey do you want to try these Mexican candy?
Or do you want to, I don't know
like we are going to get a coffee
like two blocks from here, do you want to come with us?
That's something that when you are remotely
is not that easy to do.
To be honest, when you are in the office
you are not working the whole time.
And the people have this mindset that if you are remotely
you have to be focused the whole time and it's not.
So I think that that would be good
for the company culture to have these kind of breaks
in a good way.
- Trying to access, you know, we have to VPN
in to access our box drive
and our Confluence and JIRA and our VPN, especially
in the afternoon when the developers are all awake
and dizzy can get really slow.
So having a way to access documents where
you don't have to go through VPN has been nice for sure.
- Having a trial run if possible
even to trial runs to understand that
possible reactions could come from my interview partner.
We have scheduled 15 minutes training session
which each of the participants,
which is ultra time-consuming
but it made the session much more effective.
- Everyone has the same space that you can actually
see people kind of equally in a gallery view.
And there's different channels actually
that you can actually voice an opinion
whether it's through the video hangout chat
and usually what the workshop you can also say,
oh we also have a back channel in Slack
that if you have any additional questions
and concerns that you want to address the facilitator
you can always post them in Slack
and there's someone who's going to be looking
at it and then address it to the moderator.
- They found out that
the cognitive load now it's much more than before.
So they saw the advantage of this, to get into a meeting
and get out that meeting as quick as they can.
- Once you have everyone in the same platform,
is it using the same, let's say conference software
or tools like for instance like Miro or
whatever tool or software that you're using
to aid that collaboration has made a significant improvement
and having everyone feel the same experience.
- So in order to save all of our energy
we create a recorded meeting to be watched
at convenience maybe.
And also it will, it will be like an artifact.
Maybe you can get back to it at any time.
And also it will be a story for all comments on timeline.
So maybe at the minute, a one minute and 30 seconds
you can have comments and this will be part of the process.