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![Fire your entire
design team...
[who] is obviously
incapable of
building a good
experience. Get
outside help.
Dustin Curtis
http://dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html
Wednesday, September 11, 13](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/designliteracy-130911143524-phpapp02/85/Design-literacy-5-320.jpg)
![If you are coming from outside the usual pool of
people who work in Field X, you’re going to hit
[cultural] barriers. Some of those barriers need
to be rattled and eventually demolished, but
some are just about a lack of shared context.
Open secrets are the hardest ones to crack when
you’re coming in from outside, because no one
will take you aside and whisper them in your
ear. They’re the air everyone else is breathing.
Erin Kissane
Wednesday, 12 June 2013 – The Pastry Box
Wednesday, September 11, 13](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/designliteracy-130911143524-phpapp02/85/Design-literacy-45-320.jpg)
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Design literacy
The document is a collection of notes from a discussion on design literacy. It includes definitions of literacy, principles of trustworthy media creation, and notes on focusing design on enabling user literacy rather than just the product or service. Key points discussed include understanding users and their limitations, leveraging new media to teach over time, obtaining literacy before expecting profit, and designing to facilitate understanding of concepts like accessibility compliance.
Design literacy
- 1. literacyliteracy D E SI G ND E S I G N Wednesday, September 11, 13
- 2. Dear AmericanAirlines I redesigned your websiteand I'd like to get your opinion.... Dustin Curtis http://dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html (A design villain) Wednesday, September 11, 13
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- 5. Fire your entire designteam... [who] is obviously incapable of building a good experience. Get outside help. Dustin Curtis http://dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html Wednesday, September 11, 13
- 6. Dear Dustin Curtis, Isaw your blog post titled “Dear American Airlines,” and I thought I’d drop a line. Sorry for the length of this email, but let me sum up the gist of what I’ve written below: You’re right. You’re so very right. And yet… Mr. X (via Dustin Curtis) http://dustincurtis.com/dear_dustin_curtis.html Wednesday, September 11, 13
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- 9. Why would Dustinpublish this? Wednesday, September 11, 13
- 10. Calling, sending atext, writing a letter. Write a Yelp review, etc. Publish a tweet, a blog post, etc. Take out a newspaper, billboard ad, etc. ...Consulting. Wednesday, September 11, 13
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- 12. Literacy,inanymedium,means notjustknowinghowtoread thatmedium,butalsohowto createinit,andtounderstand thedifferencebetweengoodand baduses. Clay Shirkey Foreword toMediactive by Dan Gillmor “ Wednesday, September 11, 13
- 13. Qualitative QUANTITATIVE QUANTITATIVE QUANTITATIVE QUANTITATIVEQUANTITATIVE QUANTITATIVE QUANTITATIVE QUANTITATIVE QUANTITATIVE Wednesday, September 11, 13
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- 20. discover define developdeliver 1 2 3 4 Wednesday, September 11, 13
- 21. WRITING Pieces together thoughts Expandsour understanding READING Wednesday, September 11, 13
- 22. consensus Design for commerce Adversarialdesign Dissensus Wednesday, September 11, 13
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- 24. eCommerce A/B testing conversions Wednesday,September 11, 13
- 25. Civic Literacy Field Guidesto Ensuring Voter Intent Wednesday, September 11, 13
- 26. Health Literacy Healthfinder.gov, TellingKids About Cancer Wednesday, September 11, 13
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- 29. ONE ACETAMINOPHEN TABLET COSTS 1.5¢. YOUR HOSPITAL MARKSIT UP 10,000% Wednesday, September 11, 13
- 30. The culture wecreated as a consequence, though, was – and still is in some ways – profoundly unattractive. What was supposed to be fairness can become callousness or, at the very least, can feel that way when read from the other side. Nick Harkaway The Blind Giant “ Wednesday, September 11, 13
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- 33. At any levelof abstraction, design can either be a gesture of consent or dissent. A statement of fact or a rhetorical question. Wednesday, September 11, 13
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- 42. magic: design forconsensus Design to facilitate accessibility compliance. What’s the relative contrast of color pairings on your webpage? What’s relative contrast? What are color pairings? What’s a webpage? Wednesday, September 11, 13
- 43. devs wanted understanding Agovernment that ensured accessibility literacy. Wednesday, September 11, 13
- 44. adversarial design Help culturesee the ways in which its system wasn’t working. Testing is not teaching. Wednesday, September 11, 13
- 45. If you arecoming from outside the usual pool of people who work in Field X, you’re going to hit [cultural] barriers. Some of those barriers need to be rattled and eventually demolished, but some are just about a lack of shared context. Open secrets are the hardest ones to crack when you’re coming in from outside, because no one will take you aside and whisper them in your ear. They’re the air everyone else is breathing. Erin Kissane Wednesday, 12 June 2013 – The Pastry Box Wednesday, September 11, 13
- 46. Journalismprinciples ๏Thoroughness.Learntospeakthelanguage. ๏Accuracy.Avoiderrors;theyunderminetrust. ๏Fairness.Talktousersandstakeholders. ๏Independence.Constructyourownnarrative. ๏Transparency.Askpeopletocorroborate. Adapted from DanGillmor’s principles of trustworthy media creation in “Mediactive” Wednesday, September 11, 13
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- 52. fashion commerce infrastructure governance culture nature Visual design Interaction design Informationarchitecture Content strategy User-centered Wednesday, September 11, 13
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- 56. The “literacy” bar Bookawesome 2,000 BOOKS BLUE SKY User awesome NOISY & BLOODY BLUE SKY Adapted from Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2012. Building the Minimum Badass User. Wednesday, September 11, 13
- 57. Don’t focus onthe thing, focus on the user. Enable literacy through design. Wednesday, September 11, 13
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- 59. @andrewmaier andrew@uxbooth.com http://bit.ly/10Mdelj Nerds rejoice! There’s abibliography available! Wednesday, September 11, 13