GVU Center Brown Bag Seminar: Aarron Walter "5 Habits of Effective Product Design Teams"

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Thursday March 29, 2018 - Friday March 30, 2018
      11:30 am - 12:59 pm
  • Location: Technology Square Research Building, Atlanta, GA
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  • Fee(s):
    N/A
  • Extras:
    Free food
Contact

gvu@cc.gatech.edu

Summaries

Summary Sentence: This seminar will discuss the 5 habits that help product design teams do their best work and solve problems.

Full Summary: This seminar will discuss the 5 habits that help product design teams do their best work and solve problems and help you refine your process.

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ABSTRACT

High functioning product design teams have a few key habits in common—that's what product design veteran Aarron Walter has discovered through research of top teams across market sectors. Companies like Facebook, Airbnb, Disney, and IBM have scaled product teams to reach millions of customers, a feat only possible through thoughtful collaboration and a refined process.

In this talk we'll look at the 5 habits that help product design teams do their best work and hear from the leaders at the world's most innovative companies about how their teams solve problems. You'll walk away with actionable insights that can help you refine your process and challenge your understanding of how great products come to life.
 

SPEAKER BIO

As the VP of Design Education at InVision, Aarron Walter draws upon 15 years of experience running product teams and teaching design to help companies enact design best practices. Aarron founded the UX practice at MailChimp and helped grow the product from a few thousand users to more than 10 million. His design guidance has helped the White House, the US Department of State, and dozens of major corporations, startups and venture capitalist firms.

He is the author of the best selling book, Designing for Emotion, from A Book Apart. You'll find @aarron on Twitter sharing thoughts on design. Learn more at http://aarronwalter.com.

Additional Information

In Campus Calendar
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Groups

GVU Center, IPaT, School of Interactive Computing

Invited Audience
Faculty/Staff, Public, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Categories
Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium
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Status
  • Created By: Dorie Taylor
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Mar 12, 2018 - 11:18am
  • Last Updated: Mar 26, 2018 - 10:54am