Kevin M. Hoffman is an information architect and design strategist that has been building stuff with bits and pixels since 1995.
He has served as the Experience Director for the award-winning web design agency Happy Cog, and as the Director of Digital Communications for MICA, one of the top design schools in the world, where he also taught web design and information archtiecture in the BFA and MFA programs.
Strategy
What is an effective meeting? Empathy, trust, and positive collaboration contribute to effective design meetings from kick-offs through post-mortems. But the most effective meetings are the ones where we allow ourselves to explore and iteratively fail into the smartest design ideas. So how do you get your entire team heading in the same direction? Facilitation is critical in order to integrate the disparate and sometimes conflicting goals of your team and/or client groups. Good facilitation of meetings helps teams understand the problems they’re solving early enough in the process to act upon that understanding. Good meetings lead to great design.
Who This Is For?
Anyone who wants better meetings in their design process, including:
