Design often is considered an in-person collaboration. Perhaps, however, we can leverage key principles and base tools to enhance our lives as well as our designs. Not only do we work with people across the hall, across town, and across the country, but we also work with people we never meet. Technology has provided us the ability to work in many ways, telecommute to save fuel and frustration, reduce travel costs, and use various forms of communication. The promise is there, yet the reality sometimes eludes us.

1. How Can You Be in Two Places
at Once
Designing Across Space and Time
Joe Sokohl
Principal UX Architect

2. How Can You Be in Two Places
at Once
Designing Across Space and Time
Joe Sokohl
Principal UX Architect

4. You are where?

5. Europe
North
America
Working in a distributed way
Working from a home office, designing with folks all over the world.

6. Wherever I am, I’m there
Headset, Webcam, white board, telephone, Internet...I’m ready.

8. Principles

9. Communication
He who has ears, let him hear.

10. Flexibility
Fit where you need to fit.

11. Sensitivity
It’s not all about you. It’s about others.

12. Courage
Stand up and do the right thing for your
folks.

14. Tools

15. Email
A lowest-common denominator,
ubiquitous and effective

16. Telephone
It’s not just a kid’s game. Sometimes you
need to have a dialogue, not just a
monologue.

17. Video- &
Webconferences
Sometimes showing is telling.

18. Video- &
Webconferences
Sometimes showing is telling.

19. Collaboration
Tools
Let’s work together.

20. Collaboration
Tools
Let’s work together.

21. Microblogging
#keepintouchwithyourteamwhereverthey
are

22. Questions? Discussion?

23. Joe Sokohl
joe@RegularJoeConsulting.com
@mojoguzzi