[UIE Webinar] Responsive Workflows: Because There's No Such Thing as a Perfect Process with Ben Callahan

Ben Callahan 

The virtual seminar will begin promptly at 1:30 PM, preceded by 15 minutes for socializing and networking. Come early to meet your fellow Triangle UPXA members and talk shop!

Note: You must be present at the host location to view this webinar.

Teams of all sizes struggle to keep their workflows efficient-especially amid the growth of mobile, new methodologies like Responsive Web Design, and constantly evolving business or marketing goals.

How can we be responsive in our design processes without ruining budgets, timelines, or team morale?

Ben Callahan works with businesses of all sizes on how to become more flexible, people-centric, and outcome-oriented.

Hear his tips and techniques-from giving and receiving design critiques to pitching ideas before they’re fully baked--to establish a responsive workflow that’s focused on the end product. You’ll learn to bridge communication gaps, establish clear design goals, and build trust between management and project teams.

Move away from linear thinking

• Shift your process to focus on people and goals-without ignoring timelines and budgets
  
• Invite your whole team into the process to get better buy-in and more momentum
  
• Hear case studies of projects that successfully adopted a responsive workflow
  

Embrace a responsive workflow

• Learn how to do a critique, receive feedback, and get teams on the same page
  
• Practice low-fidelity sketching, pair design, and “pixel-imperfect” design reveals
  
• Structure small teams to be cross-disciplinary right from the start
  

Invest in your people

• Value design fluency and expertise without prioritizing those qualities over humility
  
• Build trust by exchanging ideas, accepting critique, and making decisions together
  
• See how empathy-for each other and users-influences morale and final products

Attend this seminar if you:

• Often say, “There’s gotta be a better way to do this,” but don’t know what it is
  
• Want to make decisions together as a team, rather than working from a checklist
  
• Think your existing design process isn’t Agile or flexible enough
  
• Feel a tension between management and teams-and want to eliminate that tension
  

If you feel like you’re in an endless cycle of making design deliverables and sitting in exhausting meetings, then it’s time to get responsive with Ben.

Why Ben?

When Ben Callahan speaks, everyone listens. And not because his voice sounds like James Earl Jones’ (because it doesn’t. It’s much more Ohio friendly than Darth Vader.)

It’s because what he says about working in a responsive way is practical, borne from years of struggling to find the “perfect” workflow that has zero waste, risk, or delay. And fortunately for us (and everyone who’s had the pleasure to hear him), Ben has been a leading voice in making flexibility the core of responsive design workflows.

When he’s not enlightening design teams around the world, Ben is immersed in his role as president of Sparkbox, a 20-person company that builds responsive websites while practicing a collaborative, flexible workflow. He’s also the creator of the Build Responsively workshop series, and he’s written for .net Magazine and Smashing Magazine.

So if you’re looking for a fresh perspective that’ll leave you excited to get back to work, then don’t miss this seminar.

Location

SAS Training Room 

Building F, Room 101

200 SAS Campus Drive 

Cary, NC 27513 

See map: Google Maps