Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Collaboration Sessions: How to Lead Multidisciplinary Teams, Generate Buy-In, and Create Unified Design Views in Compressed Timeframes (04 Jul 2005) Collaboration Sessions are highly interactive meetings (or more accurately, work sessions) with representation from each discipline. These meetings address everything from strategic planning to the design of site sections and page details. For example, a team working on the Travel section of our site used this technique to brainstorm a new line of business and then used it to help design page details. This method is most helpful for redesigns, new features, and controversial or strategic sections of a site (e.g. the home page). Typically, an interaction designer or product manager leads the meeting at the beginning of the Design phase. Article URL: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/collaboration_sessions_how_to_lead_multidisciplinary_teams_generate_buy-in_and_create_unified_design_views_in_compressed_timeframes.php Read 206 more articles from Boxes and Arrows sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Could computer games help to transform the way we learn?     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy