My Favorite Design Team

At InsureMyTrip we’re finishing a four-month project adding filters to our product search results (cool project, long overdue). I’m project owner, manager, and design lead. We’ve finished formal QA and are in pre-release acceptance testing. And we’re on schedule.

That’s good, but what’s great is the fun we had during the design cycle. I picked the team and got good people from Customer Care, Dev, QA, and User Experience. And the project team was the design team. And the design team rocked. Arena style.

Debra, Wayne, MikeD, Andy, Hristo, and I had lots to talk about, with our different backgrounds, and we all respected each other. Which meant we iterated designs quickly. Tested. Redesigned. Talked through problems. Made better designs.

In today’s launch plan meeting, I was a bit distracted, figuring out how I’m going to get these people on my next project.

creative commons-licensed photo by Flickr user aresauburn™