Design Versioning - Version control for designers

This lesson shows why are we choosing a tool and the benefits of it.

Check this lesson to learn why the videos might look a bit different

Learn and customize in this lesson the app interface so it's easier to use and follow the course.

This lecture shows how I structure my files and folders, a method that works for me and should work for most of the cases. But it's just my recommendation. There is no need to work like this and you can use your own way of organizing. The other part of the course will also work for you regardless of your folder organization.

Learn in this lesson how easily you can initialize your project

Once you created your project you need to add your first files. This lesson will show you how you can do that.

Once you start your daily work you'll need to keep your versioning system fresh. This lesson will tell you how to easily do that.

The main point of design versioning is to be able to go to the past in your history and recover your files. This lesson shows you how to do that.

It's time to practice. Set up a new versioned project to make sure you understood how to do it before proceeding to the next section.

Learn in this lesson how to setup the online storage for your design backups.

Once you have your online backup setup, you have to publish your changes online in order to make them available there.

This lesson will show you how you can do that.

Having your designs backed up online is good but if you need to add an extra step to your workflow is not so good. This lesson will show you how you can do it in just one step.

If you lost your work or you are in a different computer, you can easily recover all your data and continue working like if it was your original computer. Check this lesson to know how to do it.

Now that you know how to store your versioned designs online it's time to put it in practice.

Make sure you know all of this before you start with project collaboration or you'll fail

In order to allow people to access your projects, first thing is to give them permission

Once you have everything setup to work in a team, it's time for them to join and start getting content. Here you'll see how you can do it.

Once your team members have finished working with your designs it's time to apply those changes to your design workflow and make sure they stay in the right place.

Once your project starts getting people in, you'll see all the versioned designs how well integrate with your workflow.

When you are working and you need your designs to be kept on a side to continue later you can easily do it. Check this lesson to learn how.

Problems can happen, but they are not so bad if you are prepared. Check this lesson to know how to react when there are problems with your files.

Now that we identified what is a conflict, let’s try to reproduce a problem and see and understand what we can do to fix it.

If there is a conflict with your files, don’t worry nothing will be lost. Check in this lesson how you can recover from this ugly event.

If instead of working by feature you prefer to save your work daily, check this lesson to learn how to properly do it.

If you usually end up with big files, this lesson will show you how to reduce the amount of size per file

You did all the course! Congratulations! Now take a look at the next action for you in order to take full advantage of the course content.

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