![]() ![]() ![]() Whether it’s with our team or with our clients we always try to promote a collaborative workflow, which is why we made the switch to Figma. Get it right and Trello can make your distributed team’s life so much easier.įollowing a move from multiple design apps to using just Figma, Creative Strategist Josh says: “For us, collaboration is one of the most important aspects in design. There’s also a multitude of blogs claiming to have the ‘ideal’ Trello board template - we say, find a format that fits for your workflow and adapt and improve when needed. There are endless project management tools and planners around now but for us, Trello has maintained its rightful place in our processes. (As with any Cloud-based application, however, there are certain precautions you should take to ensure things run smoothly and securely.) If you haven’t already joined Zoom, you probably will do soon - whether that’ s for a business meeting or dog yoga class is up to you! As well as expected features like annotation, screen sharing and recording, HD video and Zoom ‘rooms’ make conference calls a breeze. We, however, have been using Zoom for our video communications for around 3 years now for internal meetings (like the Monday morning meeting pictured below) and for client meetings. Exercise, art classes and cooking tutorials are among those you might find recently making use of the online conferencing software. Right now Zoom is being used by millions of new people adjusting to the limitations of social distancing. With Slack, we can drop a message in a channel or let someone know a task is ready to pick up and they can get onto it as soon as they’re ready.” We’re not a company that insists people must be up at 5 am just so they can give their daily stand-up report (so we’re now using an automated Slack bot to help with ‘stand-ups’). We are now more than ever working across different cities, countries and even time zones so making a call is not always an option. ![]() It also means you and the client don’t end up scrolling through endless email threads and potentially missing important information you need to progress with some work. Having shared Slack channels allows anyone to drop thoughts in or questions throughout the day into a place where everyone can see (and anyone is free to jump in and respond). Not just internally but across the whole project team (that includes the client!). Project Team Lead Katie says: “Visibility when working from home or remotely is key. Slack has been around as a communication tool for companies for a while now, and though it takes a bit of time to understand it’s full functionality, it’s a great way to encourage regular engagement for remote-working teams and say goodbye to client email threads with 20+ people cc’d. We’ve summed up our top 6 apps and tools for remote working. Using cloud-based apps can not only make your internal process smoother but provide more flexible options for client communication. We know that a forced change in working set-up may be causing a few issues for companies that aren’t used to functioning in distributed teams, so we thought it might be useful to share some of our top cloud-based apps for remote working. Now, alongside the vast majority of businesses, we’re almost three weeks into a company-wide isolation and in full-on ‘working from home’ mode and fortunately, it’s pretty much business as usual. We’re used to working in distributed teams at Cogworks with agency offices in London and Krakow and remote team members located across the UK, in Poland and as far as Colombia.
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