Design & Distributed Teams

Many of us in the design community have been reluctant to embrace the trend towards remote work and remote orgs. Design teams rely heavily on whiteboards, brainstorms, critiques, design studios and labs to build cohesively. However, realistically, each of us will likely have managed a distributed team within the next decade if we aren’t managing one today.

Through my experiences building remote teams at Upwork, as well as my current practice where I run design workshops for distributed teams, I have realized some frameworks that can help us navigate this new world.