Process, Tools, and theFuture of Our Practice

Justin Kropp - Code & Creativity - February 25, 2014

Numbers and Questions

PA R T O N E

919350Million Million

Source: http://on.wsj.com/1bfcjkM

PCs Smartphones

3713.6Million Thousand

Source: http://on.wsj.com/1bfcjkM

Smartphones per day Births per day

14Drop in laptop and desktop shipments.

Source: http://on.wsj.com/NbaYQO

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17Notebooks forecast to have touch in 2013.

Source: http://bit.ly/1d0BkeC

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1,000M

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250M

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Global Sales Smartphones & Tablets

Source: http://bit.ly/Okddmf

‘95 ‘97 ‘99 ‘01 ‘03 ‘05 ‘07 ‘09 ‘11 ‘13

My toolbox must evolve.

What will these tools look like?

How will my process change?

What will it look like in 5 or 10 years?

How will the public engagewith what I build?

Do I want to continue to do this?

A Linear Process

PA R T T W O

Sketch Design Print

I think we all crave a certain level of

predictability in our process.

Sketch Design Print

The Early Static Web

PA R T T H R E E

Plan Design Code Launch

Freak out.

A site is never truly finished.

An Adaptive Process

PA R T F O U R

Nothing is so painful to the human

mind as a great and sudden change.

Mary Shelley

The web is stretchy.

We’re not designing pages, we’re

designing systems of components.

Stephen Hay

Atoms Molecules Organisms Templates Pages

Design or manufacturing?

Don’t get drunk on processor fall in love with tools.

Andy Clarke

Strategy Design Code Ship

Stakeholder

Interviews Wireframes

Information

Architecture

User Testing

A/B Testing

Responsive

Strategy

Mobile

Strategy

Content

StrategyIterate

Iterate

Iterate

Iterate

Refactor

WTF?

We shape our tools and thereafterour tools shape us.

Marshall McLuhan

The Future of Our Work

PA R T F I V E

Early Tools

Pencil

Paper

Photoshop

Illustrator

Indesign

Current Tools

Pencil

Paper

Photoshop

Illustrator

Fireworks

Sketch

Omnigraffle

Sublime Text

Transmit

Git

Subversion

Kissmetrics

Optimizely

Evernote

Google Spreadsheet

Ghostlab

Edge Inspect

Charles Proxy

Typecast

Gridset

iA Writer

Cloud Up

Skype

Balsamiq

Dropbox

Gasmask

VMWare Fusion

Future Tools

Thanks

@justinkropp

justinkropp@gmail.com