Meet Your Makers: A fun way to know your design team
I stumbled upon this method on Design Director Nick Kidd's blog, and I think it's brilliant. I haven't used this yet, but I feel like it would be a blast. It's such a great use of collaborative technology.
You can learn more about it by visiting the link above, but basically, it's a simple Figjam with three steps:
Introduction: Name + fun image
Creative Type Test: Gives you a surface-level understanding of what to keep in mind for the growth of your designers
Taste: Explore what your designers like (no theme or reason needed, and it's OK if they're a little ashamed they like it)
Bonus: As an additional step, Kidd says you can ask everyone to pick 1-3 things (depending on the team size) from each other person's board that they like. Then, they add it to a center pile—which becomes your team's taste.
Pretty ingenious, huh?