1.
Hello
Mariana Mota
White October • Digital Oxford
UX Oxford • The Product Owner

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Get your ideas done

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Idea-to-idea syndrome
From the book “Making ideas happen” by Scott Belsky.

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Making your idea happen
1
Prioritize

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1 Prioritize
What is essential to you?
1. Personal values
2. Your goals
3. What you love
Further reading: “The power of less”, Leo Babauta

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Making ideas happen is
much easier if you work on
stuff you really care about.

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1 Prioritize
• What has the biggest impact?
• Needs vs wants
• What projects will make a difference
- in your life?
- in your career?
- to others around you?
• Do the most important things first

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Making your idea happen
1
Prioritize
2
Share

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2 Share
• People with the right energy & different
strengths
• Allow co-creation
• Share unfinished work
• Commit yourself before committing others

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2 Share

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Making your idea happen
1
Prioritize
2
Share
3
Ship it!

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http://shipitsquirrel.github.io/

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A good plan executed now,
“
is better than a perfect plan
next week. ”
- General Patton

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3 Ship it
• It will never be perfect
• Ship it, iterate, refine it (Lean Startup)
• Working with the minimal necessary (MVP)

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Making your idea happen
1 Prioritize
2
Share
3 Ship it!

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Thanks!
More on my blog:
www.marianamota.com
@MarianaMota