As you probably know (and my sidebar stands), I am currently employed at the local Ruby web development company Lunar Logic Polska. Since our boss is an agile activist and certified scrum master, whole development process is adapted to the agile rules of project management. I like the way of the agile and lately I got really interested in trying to move agile rules of project leading to design projects.
Anyway, to the point – one of my internal assignments at the office lately was to design agile planning poker cards based on the branding that we already have. In case you don’t know what planning poker is, I’ll quote PlanningPoker.com on that:
The idea behind planning poker is simple. Individual stories are presented for estimation. After a period of discussion, each participant chooses from his own deck the numbered card that represents his estimate of how much work is involved in the story under discussion. All estimates are kept private until each participant has chosen a card. At that time, all estimates are revealed and discussion can begin again.
I spent lots of solid working hours before I came up with the final design that got almost immediately approved and went to the printing shop. Then it was like with every print project – few weeks of sending e-mails and files back and forth between me and the printing shop, because of trivial things like wrong color profiles, black not really black that could produce halo being the result of CMY mixing etc. After all that technical nonsense that happens all the time when you use more than one printing shop, we finally got a package with the cards. I was happy like a kid on Christmas when I seen that everything worked out like it was supposed to and cards look great. Here are few pictures of the final work for your personal enjoyment (click for a slightly bigger version).
That’s about it. If you have any additional comments or thoughts or you just would like to appreciate my work, feel free to leave me a message in the comments or catch me on Twitter. You can also leave your appreciation and comments directly in my Behance portfolio.
Update: the design has been featured on Creattica, one of the most strictly moderated inspirational galleries out there – I feel proud!
The cards look great man! Congrats
Thanks for the appreciation, Aaron, glad to see comments like that.
Sure they are recognizable. If that was the idea – they’re great!
Love the front (with numbers), not quite like the back (too messy for me).
zx – they were supposed to be bold, recognizable (customers will get them) and connected to our brand as a whole. I think I pinned the idea quite well there.