Andrew Wachholz

Andrew Wachholz

Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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With over 23 years of experience, I drive design management in ways that align with…

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    Washington DC-Baltimore Area

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    Rockville, Maryland, United States

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

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    Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

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    Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

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    Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

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    Mankato, Minnesota, United States

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  • FTC.gov Case Study: How Healthy Client/Contractor Relationships Help Projects Succeed

    Breakdowns in client and contractor communications can derail website redesigns -- especially when the redesign brings significant structural changes and involves a large team of stakeholders. When clients and contractors work in silos on a big project, consequences can include a lack of understanding of each other's needs, disagreement about end user needs, and difficult approval processes. Some large projects have tens of thousands of pages, a varied end user audience, and many content…

    Breakdowns in client and contractor communications can derail website redesigns -- especially when the redesign brings significant structural changes and involves a large team of stakeholders. When clients and contractors work in silos on a big project, consequences can include a lack of understanding of each other's needs, disagreement about end user needs, and difficult approval processes. Some large projects have tens of thousands of pages, a varied end user audience, and many content maintainers, yet these hurdles don't derail them. In this presentation, speakers from Rock Creek Strategic Marketing and the Federal Trade Commission will discuss how we created a strong client/contractor relationship that resulted in a re-imagined FTC.gov.

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  • Digital Prototypes: Work Smarter Not Harder

    ModevEast 2013

    “Work smarter, not harder” is an adage we’ve heard at some point in our careers. From our vantage point, it’s as good in theory as it is in practice, especially when it comes to something as complex as wireframing for responsive sites. In this session we review our approach for creating efficient wireframes that facilitate a tight working relationship between UX and Dev and also ‘wow’ the client. Plus, we’ll talk about the pros and cons of the approach and how best to implement this solution at…

    “Work smarter, not harder” is an adage we’ve heard at some point in our careers. From our vantage point, it’s as good in theory as it is in practice, especially when it comes to something as complex as wireframing for responsive sites. In this session we review our approach for creating efficient wireframes that facilitate a tight working relationship between UX and Dev and also ‘wow’ the client. Plus, we’ll talk about the pros and cons of the approach and how best to implement this solution at your workplace, for your client.

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  • UX and Development: Playing Nicely Together

    A symbiotic relationship between user experience and development requires work, but the results are amazing. When these two worlds collide and collaborate, work gets done faster and more efficiently, iterative design becomes a staple, and the project’s budget (and team) bears less stress.

    However, collaboration like this isn’t always easily cultivated and sometimes people just don’t understand how to play nice. Add to this, a history of project managers focusing only on UX at the…

    A symbiotic relationship between user experience and development requires work, but the results are amazing. When these two worlds collide and collaborate, work gets done faster and more efficiently, iterative design becomes a staple, and the project’s budget (and team) bears less stress.

    However, collaboration like this isn’t always easily cultivated and sometimes people just don’t understand how to play nice. Add to this, a history of project managers focusing only on UX at the beginning and then attempting to bring development in at the tail end, and you have a recipe for team frustration and shrinking timelines.

    So, can there be a silver lining from the storm? The answer is yes.

    In our presentation, we’ll talk about how to begin engaging team members; best practices for facilitating, maintaining, and troubleshooting this collaboration; and the benefits of fostering a collaborative relationship so it can thrive.

    Focusing on our method of using digital prototyping to bridge the gap between creative design and logical development, we’ll share our insights of implementing this tool as a way to encourage and empower team collaboration. Additionally, we'll discuss our own hurdles we overcame to show you how this can really be implement into your own project process.

    From establishing a healthy collaboration between user experience designers and developers, we’ve had a notable amount of success with our projects. We’ve had shorter development time, less meetings (which everyone loves), and a better understanding of each other’s work. We’ll highlight a few examples of our success on projects.

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