Tech Summit

Workshop - Effective Designer and Developer Collaboration

Overview

The topics presented ranged from what the we found to be an effective approach to understanding and implementing user experience in both design and development, and the steps required to prove and validate a concept through visual workflows.

Additionally, we discussed the necessity to create an environment that harbors designer-developer collaboration and what technical teams should avoid.

To end the presentation, we organized an activity called Crazy Eights, a fast sketching exercise that challenges people to sketch eight ideas in eight minutes.

The audience, which ranged from NYU employees to students from IT, Tisch, Steinhardt, and more, were given the prompt, “How can we improve in/out-class communication/collaboration,” to ideate and develop among themselves.

The activity sparked some creative ideas like collaborative digital whiteboards and in-class chat-boards.

About Tech Summit

NYU Tech Summit is a one-day conference organized by NYU IT to celebrate and showcase innovative and emerging technologies used in teaching, learning, research, administration, and entrepreneurial efforts in tech.

NYU Technology Summit was hosted on November 14, 2018