There are truths about how the world works that creatives don’t like to talk about. We get angry and frustrated when we’re not granted the power we think we deserve, but there are often good reasons the world works ‘against us.’ This talk takes these ideas head on, from how power truly works, to our unavoidable dependence on salesmanship skills, so we can convert them from frustrations into practical behaviors for empowerment and achieving our dreams at work.
How can we shape our skillsets to be effective participants in Balanced Teams? Complex software projects require a wide range of skills. As an individual who seeks meaningful work, you understand the need for cross-team communication and collaboration, but the skillset is overwhelming. What do you need to know? How deeply must you know it?
Presented at the Balanced Team Summit 2015
http://www.balancedteam.org/btgr2015/
Presented at TalkUX, Atlanta Georgia, September 30, 2016
http://www.talk-ux.com/
The field of User Experience (UX) offers many opportunities for interesting, meaningful (and well paid) work. The number of skills required to do this work can feel overwhelming. As you create your own UX practice, what do you need to know? How deeply must you know it? Is it better to be a generalist or a specialist? Are unicorns real? In this talk, I'll share what I learned in my own journey from designer to founder and present some useful models for charting your own course.
Catalyzing Change: Tools and Strategies for Digital Transformation (Museums a...Dana Mitroff Silvers
Slides from Museums and the Web 2015 pre-conference workshop, "Catalyzing Change: Tools and Strategies for Digital Transformation."
workshop presenters:
Dana Mitroff Silvers @dmitroff
Emily Lytle-Painter @museumofemily
Carolyn Royston: #caro_ft
Building Authentic Connections with Visitors through Design ThinkingDana Mitroff Silvers
Slides from the 2015 Museum Computer Network (MCN) Annual Conference. This workshop combined tools and methods from the design thinking process with theories and strategies from game design.
What's makes the difference between good and great design? Or for that matter, between good and great designers?
I don't pretend to know the answer. I've been designing for 10+ years and I still don't consider myself a great designer. What this presentation offers, however, are a few principles I've learned along the path to becoming a great designer.
How can we shape our skillsets to be effective participants in Balanced Teams? Complex software projects require a wide range of skills. As an individual who seeks meaningful work, you understand the need for cross-team communication and collaboration, but the skillset is overwhelming. What do you need to know? How deeply must you know it?
Presented at the Balanced Team Summit 2015
http://www.balancedteam.org/btgr2015/
Presented at TalkUX, Atlanta Georgia, September 30, 2016
http://www.talk-ux.com/
The field of User Experience (UX) offers many opportunities for interesting, meaningful (and well paid) work. The number of skills required to do this work can feel overwhelming. As you create your own UX practice, what do you need to know? How deeply must you know it? Is it better to be a generalist or a specialist? Are unicorns real? In this talk, I'll share what I learned in my own journey from designer to founder and present some useful models for charting your own course.
Catalyzing Change: Tools and Strategies for Digital Transformation (Museums a...Dana Mitroff Silvers
Slides from Museums and the Web 2015 pre-conference workshop, "Catalyzing Change: Tools and Strategies for Digital Transformation."
workshop presenters:
Dana Mitroff Silvers @dmitroff
Emily Lytle-Painter @museumofemily
Carolyn Royston: #caro_ft
Building Authentic Connections with Visitors through Design ThinkingDana Mitroff Silvers
Slides from the 2015 Museum Computer Network (MCN) Annual Conference. This workshop combined tools and methods from the design thinking process with theories and strategies from game design.
What's makes the difference between good and great design? Or for that matter, between good and great designers?
I don't pretend to know the answer. I've been designing for 10+ years and I still don't consider myself a great designer. What this presentation offers, however, are a few principles I've learned along the path to becoming a great designer.
Design Principles: The Philosophy of UXWhitney Hess
The visual principles of harmony, unity, contrast, emphasis, variety, balance, proportion, repetition, texture and movement (and others) are widely recognized and practiced, even when they aren’t formally articulated. But creating a good design doesn’t automatically mean creating a good experience.
In order for us to cultivate positive experiences for our users, we need to establish a set of guiding principles for experience design. Guiding principles are the broad philosophy or fundamental beliefs that steer an organization, team or individual’s decision making, irrespective of the project goals, constraints, or resources.
Whitney will share a universally-applicable set of experience design principles that we should all strive to follow, and will explore how you can create and use your own guiding principles to take your site or product to the next level.
Design Sprints for Awesome Teams: Workshop at Museums & the Web 2017Dana Mitroff Silvers
Slides from "Design Sprints for Awesome Teams: Running Design Sprints for Rapid Digital Product Development" at the 2017 Museums and the Web conference in Cleveland, Ohio.
It’s easier than ever to create a startup around a new, innovative idea. But most startups fail -- and most innovative products never take off. What differentiates the projects that DO take off? What habits, behaviors and attitudes are shared by the teams who create genre-defining hits? In this talk, you’ll learn the 7 habits of breakthrough innovators - brought to life with front-line stories from the early days of eBay, Ultima Online, The Sims, Rock Band, Covet Fashion, Happify, Lumosity and Pley. You’ll come away with a smarter approach to innovative product design - and practical, actionable design shortcuts you can use right away to turbo-charge your path towards product/market fit.
How design techniques can shape more effective organizations
Designers fall in love with the things they design: flows, wireframes, journey maps and personas. But design is not a title or a set of deliverables. It is a way of interacting with the world purposefully, in order to make it a little bit better.
In this talk, Christina will explain how design thinking is a kind of cognition that is particularly useful when working on wicked problems. She will show how design techniques can shape more effective organizations, from creating the right products in the right markets to setting and making better goals. Design can even shape better negotiations and form more effective teams.
The things you don’t design often happen anyway, but rarely they way you hope they will. Design the future you wish to live in.
What you will learn
This talk will cover a design thinking approach to product design, business design and organizational design.
Who is this talk for
It is for anyone who needs to make the future look different from the past, from front line designers and product managers to CEOs and startup founders.
Summer Institute attendees learned how to "do" DT by listening to Katie Archambault describe the challenges associated with using her dated book cart, then asking questions, refining the problem statement, and designing around the perceived challenge(s).
Design Sprints for Awesome Teams: Running Design Sprints for Rapid Digital Pr...Dana Mitroff Silvers
Pre-conference workshop at the 2016 Museums and the Web Conference in Los Angeles, CA, on April 6, 2016.
Design Thinking is a set of methods and a mindset that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality to solve human-centered problems, and is the foundation upon which Design Sprints are built. We have run numerous Design Sprints with museums and cultural heritage organizations, and have refined its application to the unique constraints and opportunities of the museum sector.
Come join us for this fun and high-energy workshop in which we’ll walk you through a hands-on Design Sprint and give you tools and resources to bring sprints back to your own organization—and make your team more awesome!
Slides from #BrightonSEO Sept 2015 and #Mozinar October 2015
Practical thinking skills and brainstorming techniques that will drastically improve your idea generation for content.
Get the free ebook here: http://www.content101.com/ebooks/how-to-have-ideas/
Low on creative energy? Recharge by reading the brilliant words of famous artists and designers. Creative obstacles are a part of the web designer’s life. The quickest way to get over them (and get a little motivation) is to learn from people who have struggled and reached the pinnacle of creative realization. Get inspired by the masters of design and art with these 25 carefully curated quotes.
Immerse, Imagine, Invent, Articulate: A framework for disruptive innovationPaulJervisHeath
What new product or service could you invent that would completely change your customers’ lives? How could you disrupt your entire sector?
This practical workshop takes you through an innovation process, helping you to identify the clichés that exist in your sector and giving you the tools and time to redefine them. The workshop provides techniques to disrupt those clichés, generate genuine customer insights, turn opportunities into ideas through proven ideation methods, create a coherent concept and then articulate that concept.
The workshop shows you how to realise a new product or service through a lean process of prototyping and iteration and we discuss case studies each step of the way.
Find out why focus groups are not design research. Find out why the average brainstorm gives ideation a bad name and find out how to make your own innovation processes have tangible business outcomes.
This workshop was ran at UX Cambridge in September 2013 and will be running again at the J. Boye conference in Århus, Denmark in November 2013.
Design Principles: The Philosophy of UXWhitney Hess
The visual principles of harmony, unity, contrast, emphasis, variety, balance, proportion, repetition, texture and movement (and others) are widely recognized and practiced, even when they aren’t formally articulated. But creating a good design doesn’t automatically mean creating a good experience.
In order for us to cultivate positive experiences for our users, we need to establish a set of guiding principles for experience design. Guiding principles are the broad philosophy or fundamental beliefs that steer an organization, team or individual’s decision making, irrespective of the project goals, constraints, or resources.
Whitney will share a universally-applicable set of experience design principles that we should all strive to follow, and will explore how you can create and use your own guiding principles to take your site or product to the next level.
Design Sprints for Awesome Teams: Workshop at Museums & the Web 2017Dana Mitroff Silvers
Slides from "Design Sprints for Awesome Teams: Running Design Sprints for Rapid Digital Product Development" at the 2017 Museums and the Web conference in Cleveland, Ohio.
It’s easier than ever to create a startup around a new, innovative idea. But most startups fail -- and most innovative products never take off. What differentiates the projects that DO take off? What habits, behaviors and attitudes are shared by the teams who create genre-defining hits? In this talk, you’ll learn the 7 habits of breakthrough innovators - brought to life with front-line stories from the early days of eBay, Ultima Online, The Sims, Rock Band, Covet Fashion, Happify, Lumosity and Pley. You’ll come away with a smarter approach to innovative product design - and practical, actionable design shortcuts you can use right away to turbo-charge your path towards product/market fit.
How design techniques can shape more effective organizations
Designers fall in love with the things they design: flows, wireframes, journey maps and personas. But design is not a title or a set of deliverables. It is a way of interacting with the world purposefully, in order to make it a little bit better.
In this talk, Christina will explain how design thinking is a kind of cognition that is particularly useful when working on wicked problems. She will show how design techniques can shape more effective organizations, from creating the right products in the right markets to setting and making better goals. Design can even shape better negotiations and form more effective teams.
The things you don’t design often happen anyway, but rarely they way you hope they will. Design the future you wish to live in.
What you will learn
This talk will cover a design thinking approach to product design, business design and organizational design.
Who is this talk for
It is for anyone who needs to make the future look different from the past, from front line designers and product managers to CEOs and startup founders.
Summer Institute attendees learned how to "do" DT by listening to Katie Archambault describe the challenges associated with using her dated book cart, then asking questions, refining the problem statement, and designing around the perceived challenge(s).
Design Sprints for Awesome Teams: Running Design Sprints for Rapid Digital Pr...Dana Mitroff Silvers
Pre-conference workshop at the 2016 Museums and the Web Conference in Los Angeles, CA, on April 6, 2016.
Design Thinking is a set of methods and a mindset that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality to solve human-centered problems, and is the foundation upon which Design Sprints are built. We have run numerous Design Sprints with museums and cultural heritage organizations, and have refined its application to the unique constraints and opportunities of the museum sector.
Come join us for this fun and high-energy workshop in which we’ll walk you through a hands-on Design Sprint and give you tools and resources to bring sprints back to your own organization—and make your team more awesome!
Slides from #BrightonSEO Sept 2015 and #Mozinar October 2015
Practical thinking skills and brainstorming techniques that will drastically improve your idea generation for content.
Get the free ebook here: http://www.content101.com/ebooks/how-to-have-ideas/
Low on creative energy? Recharge by reading the brilliant words of famous artists and designers. Creative obstacles are a part of the web designer’s life. The quickest way to get over them (and get a little motivation) is to learn from people who have struggled and reached the pinnacle of creative realization. Get inspired by the masters of design and art with these 25 carefully curated quotes.
Immerse, Imagine, Invent, Articulate: A framework for disruptive innovationPaulJervisHeath
What new product or service could you invent that would completely change your customers’ lives? How could you disrupt your entire sector?
This practical workshop takes you through an innovation process, helping you to identify the clichés that exist in your sector and giving you the tools and time to redefine them. The workshop provides techniques to disrupt those clichés, generate genuine customer insights, turn opportunities into ideas through proven ideation methods, create a coherent concept and then articulate that concept.
The workshop shows you how to realise a new product or service through a lean process of prototyping and iteration and we discuss case studies each step of the way.
Find out why focus groups are not design research. Find out why the average brainstorm gives ideation a bad name and find out how to make your own innovation processes have tangible business outcomes.
This workshop was ran at UX Cambridge in September 2013 and will be running again at the J. Boye conference in Århus, Denmark in November 2013.
This talk today is the same I gave back in 2019 with some additions and tweaks. The talk left me realizing that now that I had spoken on “Standing up for Creative”, I now had to follow my own advice.
Design and Power: A Political Playbook for Creative Leaders berkun
Even with a seat at the table decisions in organizations hinge on two factors 1) who at the table has the most power? and 2) how can they be influenced? Designers and creatives notoriously overlook how their lack of political acumen cripples their ability to make good things happen. But fear not: this fast-paced talk based centers on the critical situations and the wise plays a leader can use to turn things around.
This presentation was given at Hacker Lab for Sacramento User Experience Meetup. It explores innovative process improvements as well as disruptive innovation using methodologies from The Luma Institute, IDEO, and Cooper Design.
Designer Games - Creative Exercises to Enhance Your WorkJohn H Douglass
Ultimately we’re all fighting for users, but which ideas will win their favor? Sometimes, in the battle arena of meetings, requirements and design reviews, the loudest voice gets heard but not necessarily the best. Sometimes design sensibilities and user feedback take a backseat to politics, short-term goals or decisions by committee. In this talk you’ll learn more about a few useful weapons, such as gamestorming and design critiques, to make sure the best ideas win.
Design Thinking for Startups - Are You Design Driven?Amir Khella
This presentation provides some best practices and tools to help small business entrepreneurs and startup founders in creating a culture of innovation.
Whether you're working on a web 2.0, iPhone or a physical gadget, these simple practices are universally applicable.
***Note****
I will be running a webinar in October 2009 to expand on the points mentioned in this presentation, study design thinking use cases and stories and answer questions. Please leave a comment and follow the discussion, or follow @amirkhella on twitter to get notified about the webinar.
How to champion ideas back at work (An Event Apart)berkun
An Event Apart, as the name says, is special indeed. But what happens when you leave? How will you act on what you’ve learned? This talk by show you how to bend the brains of your coworkers and clients to your will! You’ll get great advice on educating, inspiring and leading people who weren’t even at the event.
How To Overcome the Toughest Public Speaking Situationsberkun
Based on the bestseller Confessions of a Public Speaker, author Scott Berkun will cover both the most common and the most challenging presentation situations, coaching you to both avoid and recover from just about anything that can possibly go wrong during a presentation of any kind.
Can Free Speech Survive The Social Media Mob?berkun
The disturbing trend of online mob "justice" continues to grow. Has the unprecedented power of social media made us more or less free to express ourselves? What can we learn from how social media handled controversies and events like the Newtown shootings, The Boston Marathon bombing and the George Zimmerman case? This entertaining and challenging talk explores these questions, providing clarity and advice on how media experts and ordinary citizens can make a difference.
A masterclass in writing well – author Berkun has had a popular blog since 2003. He’ll offer no-nonsense advice about the forgotten core of what makes a blog, and books, succeed: good writing. From picking great topics, to writing drafts, to steel-eyed editing, to discipline and motivation, you’ll get a pro authors best lessons on the craft of writing. With plenty of time for Q&A.
In the world of Web 2.0, anyone can claim to be a social media guru. How do you differentiate between a scam artist and a sage? How do you separate the snake oil from the substance?
7 Alternatives to Bullet Points in PowerPointAlvis Oh
So you tried all the ways to beautify your bullet points on your pitch deck but it just got way uglier. These points are supposed to be memorable and leave a lasting impression on your audience. With these tips, you'll no longer have to spend so much time thinking how you should present your pointers.
Unleash Your Inner Demon with the "Let's Summon Demons" T-Shirt. Calling all fans of dark humor and edgy fashion! The "Let's Summon Demons" t-shirt is a unique way to express yourself and turn heads.
https://dribbble.com/shots/24253051-Let-s-Summon-Demons-Shirt
Book Formatting: Quality Control Checks for DesignersConfidence Ago
This presentation was made to help designers who work in publishing houses or format books for printing ensure quality.
Quality control is vital to every industry. This is why every department in a company need create a method they use in ensuring quality. This, perhaps, will not only improve the quality of products and bring errors to the barest minimum, but take it to a near perfect finish.
It is beyond a moot point that a good book will somewhat be judged by its cover, but the content of the book remains king. No matter how beautiful the cover, if the quality of writing or presentation is off, that will be a reason for readers not to come back to the book or recommend it.
So, this presentation points designers to some important things that may be missed by an editor that they could eventually discover and call the attention of the editor.
Hello everyone! I am thrilled to present my latest portfolio on LinkedIn, marking the culmination of my architectural journey thus far. Over the span of five years, I've been fortunate to acquire a wealth of knowledge under the guidance of esteemed professors and industry mentors. From rigorous academic pursuits to practical engagements, each experience has contributed to my growth and refinement as an architecture student. This portfolio not only showcases my projects but also underscores my attention to detail and to innovative architecture as a profession.
Can AI do good? at 'offtheCanvas' India HCI preludeAlan Dix
Invited talk at 'offtheCanvas' IndiaHCI prelude, 29th June 2024.
https://www.alandix.com/academic/talks/offtheCanvas-IndiaHCI2024/
The world is being changed fundamentally by AI and we are constantly faced with newspaper headlines about its harmful effects. However, there is also the potential to both ameliorate theses harms and use the new abilities of AI to transform society for the good. Can you make the difference?
40. Surprise: these are sales tasks
• Prototyping
• Pitching
• Evangelizing
• Going to meetings run by someone else
• Asking for resources
• Giving presentations
• Growing influence
41. “Talk to people you don’t like”
- Samantha Starmer, REI
Secret: we got into tech, so we can work with
software, instead of all the people we don’t like
42. If people think you are smart
and useful your job title is
irrelevant
43. If people think you are dumb
and useless your job title is
irrelevant
49. Who will:
- Ask the tough question
- Do the extra work
- Be willing to fail, and learn
- Put their reputation on the line
- Commit to a big crazy idea
50. Photo Credits
• Stove: http://fightclubmpm17.wordpress.com/thoughtless-acts-stephanie/
• Various, Thoughtless Acts?, Jane Fulton Suri
• Sales : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Salesman_-beach_-_bikini-
_sun-27Dec2008.jpg
• Maginot Line: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line
• Masada night - http://www.flickr.com/photos/18129976@N08/4530206067/
• Bunker: http://www.bunkertours.co.uk/metrich/block_1.JPG
• Masada above - http://www.bible-architecture.info/Masada.htm
• Masada map - http://www.bible-architecture.info/Masada.htm
• museum 1 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/wsifrancis/3256582969/
• Museum 2 - http://www.baunetz.de/talk/crystal/gallerie.php?
group=22&lang=en&temp=crystal&id=9
• Museum - http://architecturerevived.blogspot.com/2008/11/institute-of-
contemporary-art-ica.html
