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What I Think It Takes to be a Badass Designer

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Presentation by Juan Alvarez, senior UI engineer at Intuit; at Visual.ly's Designer Meetup: The skills needed to design great data visualizations.

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What I think it takes to be a badass designer

Now work on creating bad ass iPhone/iPad apps for Mint.com

Find your heroes

Made By Sofa

Push Pop Press

Square

37Signals

Reach out to your heroes

Think inside the box

Credit Card Terminals

Square

Thermostats

Nest

Out-Teach Your Competition

Emulate TV Chefs

Make data simple to understand

Don’t Worry

All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. -Ira Glass

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