Running a resilient, remote design team

Leaders and teams everywhere are facing new realities. To help, we’re sharing a collection of resources to guide you as you adapt to a fully remote and distributed world.

How to lead and communicate
in a remote environment

Guidance for managing across global timezones, adapting feedback and presentations, and building up your soft skills.

Abstract allowed us to work around the clock with smooth handoffs to other timezones, and also keep longer-term work tied to the same project that would be merged in when ready

Kevin Smith

Cisco

Abstract for remote and distributed teams

From design reviews to feedback and stakeholder approvals, Abstract lets you move work forward with clarity and intention.

Webinar:

Collections & Design Reviews

Discover how Abstract’s Collections streamline the review and feedback process with stakeholders and teams of all sizes, enabling transparency and rapid iteration.

Telling the story of your work, using Collections during design reviews

Manage the flow of feedback, enjoy better design reviews

7 ways to make better commits to document your decision-making process

“How often should I commit?” is a common question we hear from the Abstract community.

Asynchronous work can happen because designers can pick it up as soon as one leaves the office and the other arrives — on the other side of the world

Allison Shaw

Zendesk

Features to help you establish a centralized source of truth

A built-to-last view of everything everyone is working on, from home offices and across timezones.

See what everyone is working on

Get a real time view of your team’s commits, branches, and comments in the Activity Feed

Share your designs

Conduct virtual design reviews and share work with stakeholders, using Collections

Capture feedback on the work

With comments and annotations, track every decision so you can say, “We’ve tried that before.”

More remote advice from our designers, around the web

We’re a friendly bunch (and available for interviews). Here are some ways we organize our days, work spaces, and calendars to effectively collaborate.