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Accelerating Innovation for Teams

A community for creative professionals specializing in marketing, design, development, and related professions. This initiative streamlines the coordination of team efforts, and celebrates a culture of innovation. It enhances collaboration, accelerates informed decision-making, and keeps a focus on the user and the customer.

Role: Technical Founder

Challenge

In traditional approaches to design, a top-down decision-making process is common. Business teams working this way often experience a lack of alignment on goals and project vision. They often do not have the benefit of data-driven decisions, and are guided instead by guesswork and the gut instinct of the highest paid people, regardless of their actual expertise.

Teams stuck in this paradigm have trouble thinking outside the box, and struggle to generate and validate innovative ideas quickly. They are often mired with delayed project timelines, low morale, and poor team communication. Most troubling, this top-down approach rarely produces effective solutions.
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​This project aims to create a networking and career platform for potential members of a design sprint team. The overarching goal is to nurture and train a whole community of cross-functional, independent creative professionals in essential innovation skills like:

  • Alignment Workshops: Initial sessions focused on aligning a team and generating agreement on project goals, user needs, and desired outcomes. This sets a clear direction for the entire project.
  • Rapid Prototyping: Using time-boxed sessions, the team creates low-fidelity prototypes to visualize and test ideas early, enabling faster iterations and reducing the risk of pursuing ineffective concepts.
  • Testing and Validation: The process includes testing phases to confirm the value of ideas with real customers, ensuring the team stays focused on creating solutions that are viable, feasible, usable, and desirable.
  • Collaboration and Communication: Tools and methods for effective communication and collaboration between designers, developers, marketers, and stakeholders, to improve team dynamics, reduce timelines, and bolster effective decision-making.

Visual inspiration and examples of typography, logos, colors, and styles for select brand attributes: vibrant, organic, curious, experimental, open-minded.

Empowering Teams to Collaborate, Innovate, and Deliver Faster

Fueling Rapid Innovation and Team Cohesion

On the home page for this community of innovators, visual concepts related to team assembly, collaboration, and continuous professional development are explored.

On the star page, visitors can explore profiles of community members.

The profile page for a community member. A visitor can learn more about this person, in less time, and in more detail, than is possible with the typical professional platforms. A collaboration could be initiated with this creative professional right from this page.

The interface used to add personal details to a profile. In addition to the typical profile picture, the community member can add images of themselves in action at work and at play. This helps visitors learn more about this person's interests and hobbies, and connect with them at a deeper level.

Design Sprints for Faster, Aligned, and Customer-Centric Solutions

Unlocking Agile Collaboration and Creativity

The community platform is also a place to find opportunities to work on interesting projects. Missions are how opportunities are announced to the community. 

 

A mission is a job for a team. View of roles available on this particular mission, and the interface to apply to be considered for a team role.

Applying for a mission begins a conversation. The mission owner can accept a proposal and send a mission agreement to the applicant.

Views of other interface components as part of the process to create, apply for, and approve a mission.

View of the calendar of events for this community of innovators and creatives. Events cover a variety of topics of interest to various disciplines. The goal is to provide a community-fueled schedule of courses, networking activities, and fun events to help members of this community grow personally and professionally, and also deepen their network of peers.

Potential Outcomes

The goals of this community include elevating and nurturing skills in lean, agile, and design thinking methodologies. These enhanced skills enable improved decision-making, faster consensus on strategic business decisions, less time spent on meetings, and more productive outcomes.

The objective is to achieve enhanced collaboration, clearer communication, and greater alignment on goals and strategies. Aligned and supercharged collaborative teams produce desirable business outcomes at a higher rate. Other potential benefits include decreased project delivery timelines, lower operational costs, and higher ROI on initiatives.

At the individual contributor level, this interest and attention to the culture and health of teams leads to higher employee engagement, increased team satisfaction and morale due to better collaborative practices, and fewer internal conflicts arising from misunderstandings, as well as increased synergy and productivity.
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​At the level of stakeholders and decision makers, effective collaboration drives clarity, alignment, and better business outcomes. Investing in enhanced skills and continuous improvement of team dynamics leads to less waste of time and resources, less turnover, happier employees, and more positive business results.

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Hi, I'm David Rovira

Let's Make Things Better

I help teams achieve more in less time, with facilitated collaboration. I'm a UX, product, and interaction designer and facilitator.

Just founded an online community for creative professionals called Team Star. It's a place for peers and colleagues to connect, grow, learn, and practice team member skills.

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