Good Kickoff Meetings

Facilitate a discussion of your portfolio around your values related to a particular project phase, such as visual design or information architecture.

Gather framing information for visual design phase by get a sense of what a group responds to aesthetically.

Break the design aesthetic of websites down into individual user interface elements, and then assess a group’s reaction to variations in those elements.

Get everyone building paper prototypes with Todd Zaki Warfel’s Design Studio approach, adapted for use in kickoff meetings.

Use this fast and simple technique to explore and develop agreement around organizational priorities.

A variation on the poker game “Pass the Trash,” this technique will assess the priorities of a large organization as well as the amount of variance between two sub groups.