How to run remote design projects

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We, at Fruto studio, are a fully remote UX design team. For the past 3 years, we’ve been testing design and communication tools that can make our work efficient and very collaborative. We think we have a pretty good set up now.

We’ve ran a series of webinars on the topic and this post is a follow up from it where we list the tools and techniques that we use.

Tools & resources

Managing remote design teams & collaboration

• Communication: Slack, Whereby, emails
• Knowing team’s availability: Google calendar, Timetastic
• Privacy & confidentiality: Lastpass; Two-factor authentication (most apps)
• Documentation: Google Suite; Intranet (Google sites)
• Expenses: FreeAgent

Setting up & managing projects

• Harvest
• Trello

User research & workshops

• Calendly
• GotoMeeting
• Optimal Workshop
• Miro
• Google Suite (Slides, Docs, Jamboard)
• Trello

Design workflow

• Sketch
• Axure
• Invision
• Abstract
• Google Suite
• Nucleo (icon set)

Delivery & support

• Zeplin
• Google Suite (Slides)
• Slack
• Screen recording: Quicktime, Kap