Workshop Schedule
| Time | Monday | Tuesday |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Welcome (slides, goals poll, sw poll) | Presentations (continued) |
| 9:30 | Introducing concepts (slides) | Designing systems (slides) |
| 11:00 | Break | Break |
| 11:10 | Exercises (slides, comparisons) | Exercises (slides, reading, writing) |
| 12:00 | Lunch | Lunch |
| 1:00 | Presentations | Presentations |
| 1:30 | Designing concepts (slides) | Autodesk exercises (slides, catalog, rubric) |
| 3:15 | Break | Break |
| 3:30 | Exercises (slides, reading, writing) | Autodesk exercises |
| 4:30 | Presentations | Presentations |
| 4:45 | End of day reflections | End of workshop reflections (survey) |
| 5:00 | Adjourn | Adjourn |
Goals
- To give participants basic proficiency in concept design
- To train leaders for infusing concept design into Autodesk
- To help align participants in their design work, across roles & teams
- To get some experience applying concept design in a work project
- To encourage participants to reflect on their strategies when designing
General structure
- The workshop will be on August 25 and 26
- Each day will run from 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Each day will break for lunch from 12:00-1:00
- Shorter breaks mid-morning and mid-afternoon
- Sessions will include presentations, discussions & exercises
Agenda
- Monday am: Conceptual models & the idea of concepts
- Monday pm: Defining user-facing behavior in a UI-independent way
- Tuesday am: Composing concepts & modularity
- Tuesday pm: Project work (eg, on Unified Design concepts)
Pre-reading
In advance of the workshop, I’d like you to read some short pieces for some background:
- An overview of concept design: Three Stages of Enlightenment (13 minute read)
- A brief explanation of how concept design fits in with other kinds of design: Levels of Design (3 minute read)
- A short piece about the spirit of design, and how great design happens: How Great Design Happens (4 minute read) I hope you enjoy these and find them helpful. There are several other pieces on the concept design website that you might find interesting, for example one about how LLMs will upend the principles of agile development.
Homework
In advance of the workshop, I’d like you to think a little about your own design work, and answer the following questions by submitting this form by August 10:
- What are some key strategies you use in design?
- What is a recent user-facing design problem that you’ve worked on? What was the problem and how did you solve it (or not)?
- What questions or concerns about concept design are you hoping the workshop will answer?