Why you should do side projects and some of my own

1. @almonk
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3. Designer at GoCardless,
B2B payments company
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4. Designer at GoCardless,
B2B payments company
Founded 2011, now UK’s
largest Direct Debit bureau
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5. Designer at GoCardless,
B2B payments company
Founded 2011, now UK’s
largest Direct Debit bureau
Launching in Europe soon
Tuesday, 10 September 13

6. (Do side projects)
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7. Why do a side project?
How to realise your ideas.
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8. Learn new skills with no pressure
Improve your business skills
Learn about press/PR
Meet new people
and finally...
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9. EMBRACE
Indirect benefits can be huge.
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10. failure / success
I prefer the term...
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11. Make something you need
and you’ll make it
Know what you’re making
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12. A tube status app
Project #1
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13. Too much functionality, not enough focus
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14. Too much functionality, not enough focus
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15. Too much functionality, not enough focus
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18. Prototyped in HTML first
Learnt rubymotion over a week
Collab design with Simon Whybray
Shipped 2 weeks from idea
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20. What happened?
Featured in the Metro newspaper.
#2 in AppStore.
15,000+ downloads.
http://getlin.es/designandbanter
GRAB A FREE COPY :D
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22. A concept sharing app
Project #2
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23. What?
Show off site designs
Get them out of email & into browser
As little ‘workflow’ as possible
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25. Prototyped in Wordpress first
Learnt Ruby & Rails over a month
Shipped 2 weeks from idea
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27. What happened?
3,000 users (5% paying)
Used by Adobe, Facebook, Ideo
11,000+ projects
Sign up on site for invite,
http://flatsi.es
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28. To sum up...
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29. To sum up...
Make something you need
and you’ll make it
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30. To sum up...
Make something you need
and you’ll make it
Know what you’re making
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31. To sum up...
Make something you need
and you’ll make it
Know what you’re making
Embrace your fuccesses
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32. @almonk
Tuesday, 10 September 13