On creative collaboration

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How I've used what I've learned about co-creation - or creative collaboration - in multi-discipline design teams.

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On co-creation

I’ve always been a collaborator

(Yet I’m naturally solitary)

Now I’m a content strategist

Are you the only content strategist

on your team?

Pair programming and other types of pairs

Turns out content strategists are good at collaborating.

The first time I felt part of a community of ideas, rather than place.

But is it art?

“...Robert Hillyer and I began what we called

the Great Novel, the GN. At the front we

worked on the novel in a cement tank that

protected us from the shelling. We wrote

alternate chapters...”

- John Dos Passos

A nicer setting can help.

We mostly make things with other people, yet we prize the

idea that good things are made alone, the solitary result of one

person’s genius.

Collaborating creativelyhas affected everything I do.

It’s made me do things that terrify me.

Why I work (other than money).

This is what we’re spending our lives doing.

Divided by a common language.

Tech Design

UXContent

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/24/3904134/google-redesign-how-larry-page-engineered-beautiful-revolution

“Each product team is finding its way to a consistent and forward-looking design language thanks to a surprising process.They’re talking to each other.”

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/24/3904134/google-redesign-how-larry-page-engineered-beautiful-revolution