This document describes Davide Casali's experience leading remote teams at Automattic to develop projects like Calypso and the WordPress.com Theme Showcase. It discusses how the teams prioritized face-to-face meetings, clear communication, transparency, focusing on one feature at a time, and testing with internal and external groups. The document also outlines Casali's work on UX for Good projects that apply design to social issues and his principles for effective remote and local teamwork which include balancing remote and in-person work and ensuring all work is useful.
57. “
”
Jason Kunesh, Obama For America
We came together as a team
in a way that I haven’t experienced
anywhere else.
58. “
”
Marianne Prins, Van Horne Elementary School
I just witnessed
an absolute explosion of ideas.
59. CAN WE DESIGN
THE COMMON GOOD?
2011
Chicago
StreetWise · Adler School · The Third Teacher · Cease Fire · Global Lives Project
60. CAN WE ENRICH LIVES
OF WORKING MUSICIANS?
2012
New Orleans
Grammy Foundation · New Orleans Jazz Heritage F. & F. · Clinton Global Initiative · MusiCares
61. CAN WE GROW
MINDFULNESS IN SCHOOLS?
2013
Vancouver
The Dalai Lama Center for Peace + Education
62. CAN WE HARNESS FEELINGS
TO END GENOCIDE?
2014
Kigali & London
Aegis Trust
65. “In my family, we never talked about the genocide
It was too fresh in my parents’ mind”
66. And you saved the life
of the people I was planning on killing”
“You saved my life.
- Child of victims to teacher of mobile education
67. “I came back and my grandmother says,
I hope you got that Africa out of your system.
But at that moment,
I realized it was there and growing.
So I moved my family here and opened a school”
- KGM Visitor
68. “Users go through the hard part,
but then also the uplifting part
realizing some of the possibilities that are there”
- Morley Hanson, Aegis Trust
69. UX FOR GOOD 2014
IN NUMBERS
40+
Interviews
with staff and locals
90
Flights
worldwide
15
People forever
changed
3,124
Post-its
and flip-charts
500+
Hours
of research
96
Servings of
french fries
76. “
”
Prof. Dr. Tania Singer
People with a lot of empathy
want to change that to compassion
so they don't get overwhelmed when
confronted with suffering.