But I’m a Bloody
Designer!
Mike Stenhouse / Trampoline Systems / Donotremove1

Specialisation
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18/02/2005
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18/02/2005
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✤ Standards-based presentation using XHTML and
CSS
✤ Dynamic display and interaction using the
Document Object Model
✤ Data interchange and manipulation using XML and
XSLT
✤ Asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest
✤ JavaScript binding everything together
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✤ 1996 iFrame Remoting
✤ 1998 Microsoft Remote Scripting
✤ 1999 Microsoft Office 2000 Web Access
✤ 2002 Flash 4 Remoting
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Sexy new ameworks
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Javascript renaissance
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Danger, Will Robinson!
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Linear process
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“Perl, PHP, ASP, .NET, HTML, CSS, RSS, ATOM,
JavaScript, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator,
graphic user interface design as well as
interaction design. The applicant must have at
least five years practical experience, and a
computer science degree is a plus.”
molly.com
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✤ User experience ✤ Web designer
designer
✤ Web product designer
✤ User interface designer
✤ Web interface
✤ Web interface designer developer
✤ Web standards ✤ Web standards
designer developer
✤ Usability consultant ✤ Designer
✤ Accessibility consultant ✤ Rails developer
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“Photoshop, Usability, Accessibility,
Information Architecture, Interaction Design,
User Experience, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ajax,
PHP, Ruby, Rails, Patterns, Databases. Good
communication skills essential.”
Mike-a-like
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“If you think you understand the problem then
you clearly haven’t thought about it enough.”
Craig Mcmillan
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System aware designers
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“There are only two hard things in computer
science: cache invalidation and naming
things.”
Tim Bray quoting Phil Karlton
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“Many people falsely assume that interface
design can mask any ugly complexities of the
underlying business. [...] You can put lipstick
on a pig, but at the end of the day, it’s still a
pig.”
Garrett Dimon / garrettdimon.com
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“There was a clear and strategic requirement
from the heads of design in [these 11 top global
brands] to recruit and train designers who
demonstrate multi-disciplinary working,
business acumen and strategic thinking.”
designcouncil.org.uk
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“Twin shooting materials – moulding different
plastics together or co-moulding plastic to metal
gives us a range of functional and formal
opportunities that really didn’t exist before. The
iPod is made from twin-shot plastic with no
fasteners and no battery doors enabling us to
create a design which was dense completely
sealed.”
Jonathan Ive / designmuseum.org
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“We invested $50,000 of our company’s money
into a fund consisting of 10 companies we felt
did a great a job at user experience. [...] In the
one year period of our test, our UX investment
philosophy trounced the markets.”
Jon Lax / uxmag.com
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Interaction aware
developers
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“The easiest way to make a bad interface in
your OSS project is to ignore it. Bad interfaces
are the natural state of software: You’ll get one
unless you work hard to avoid it.”
Jono DiCarlo / humanized.com
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“Each developer is assigned to maintain their
own features and respond to bug reports from
users.”
Marc Hedlund / radar.oreilly.com
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Collaboration
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“Designers learn empathy by spending time in
the lives and environments of real customers.”
adaptivepath.com
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Agile
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✤ Individuals and interactions over processes and
tools
✤ Working software over comprehensive
documentation
✤ Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
✤ Responding to change over following a plan
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Pairing
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Design
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Development
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Features
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Test driven development
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Pairing on testing
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Behaviour driven
development
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“What should this do?”
wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_driven_development
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“You can tell people how it feels but everyone
needs their own epiphany.”
Matt Biddulph
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“People that don't, you don't have to – it's not
going to make a bad DJ good – but it'll make a
good DJ better.”
Josh Davis
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But I’m a Bloody
Designer!
Mike Stenhouse / Trampoline Systems / Donotremove
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✤ http://flickr.com/photos/kola1965/98669672/
✤ http://flickr.com/photos/mylesnoton/741240199/
✤ http://flickr.com/photos/peterme/85327653/
✤ http://flickr.com/photos/kidneybingos/379625556/
✤ http://flickr.com/photos/st_morpheus/1188884587/
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✤ http://flickr.com/photos/nickfarnhill/415649633/
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✤ http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000385.php
✤ http://www.molly.com/2006/11/17/creativity-jam-session-write-your-own-web-dev-
job-advert/
✤ http://garrettdimon.com/archives/2007/10/3/the_hidden_interface/
✤ http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/managingdesign/Management-
challenges/Skills/
✤ http://www.rttsweb.com/outsourcing/statistics/
✤ http://www.designmuseum.org/design/jonathan-ive
✤ http://www.uxmag.com/strategy/327/investing-in-ux
✤ http://humanized.com/weblog/2007/10/05/make_oss_humane/
✤ http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/02/web_development_20.html
✤ http://agilemanifesto.org/
✤ http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000858.php
✤ http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_driven_development
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