Teaching
Helping designers turn a brief into a project they can deliver.
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From a brief to a project
you can deliver.
I prepared a course that works with the designers’ own projects. The course plan builds toward four working artifacts.
- 01 / Course artifact
A task board
A chosen working method, a backlog and visible work in progress.
Backlog / Doing / Review / Done - 02 / Course artifact
A role map
Make responsibility visible before the work is handed over.
Roles / Responsibilities - 03 / Course artifact
A brief with acceptance criteria
Agree what needs to be made and how it will be accepted.
Brief / Acceptance - 04 / Course artifact
A work breakdown
Split the work into tasks and estimate it in hours.
Tasks / Hours
Turn “make a website”
into work you can see.
- 01
Build the backlog
Collect what the project needs. The lesson starts with ten to fifteen cards.
- 02
Break down “make a website”
Ask whether the card is a task or a whole project. Split it into smaller pieces of work.
- 03
Put the work in order
Choose what comes first and explain why.
- 04
Limit work in progress
Keep one or two cards in Doing. Discuss why starting everything at once makes work harder to finish.
Public excerpt · English adaptation of my course material. The board shows the exercise structure, not student work.