Work Session Review Shows Great Progress

We interviewed the team leaders to see their progress so far. Good news: Every team has kept its schedule so far. At noon the teams reconvened to show their morning work to the team. We all met around one of the office’s wall-mounted screens — and liked what we saw. ### Engineering Preps for WordPress The developers had done more than hash out the best way to build out their work — they’d set up their local Macs as Apache servers. They also prepped the old website for its impending DNS change to make a seamless transition to the new site at 8AM PST tomorrow. It may be 20+ hours away, but we when we say “go live!” we mean “now!” ### “What Do We Need to Communicate?” The question facing the content team was simple to ask, challenging to answer. The team explored many ideas, settling on a storytelling approach. Who SHCS helps, how they do it, and how the community gets involved was one such story. They have to move fast because the print team’s deadline looms. ### The Print Team Comes Together The designers in print showed us their concepts — “look at the ideas, not the details” — in typography, warm colors and people-centric photos. Ignoring the technique, we saw the message: Many elements coming together to a single purpose. ### Web Design Jams Through Ideas The web team challenged themselves to work fast. Each member created 10 concepts in 10 minutes, and spent as long reviewing each other’s work. After an hour they’d developed three style tiles, or the general look & feel of how the site should *feel.* To see more, have a look at the Opportunities in Influence