Session slides from Future Insights Live, Vegas 2015:
https://futureinsightslive.com/las-vegas-2015/
You might know the proverb: 'the shoemaker's children go barefoot'. One often neglects those closest to oneself. We, as designers, have some amazing tools and skills, so why is it that we rarely use these skills beyond client work? Why don't we use them to help us in our own work processes, to become better designers; better executors; better collaborators? In this talk, Chen talks about how we can apply our design thinking to solve the problems of our most important clients: ourselves!
Designed to Be Clicked: Must-Know Design Principles for Social Media MarketersAlison Knott
Hold on to your hats – Alison is about to level up your design thinking with concepts that will take your social media graphics from “meh” to “holy-hell-I-want-to-click-that”. She’ll cover the secrets of C.R.A.P (seriously, that acronym is real), how to push your brand ahead of everyone else, avoiding template traps, the importance of typography and more. All with helpful before and after case studies to hit points home.
Your organization has embraced the Devops philosophy, and is growing. So you set out to hunt for Devops practitioners, and quickly find that usual hiring approaches (e.g., recruiters looking on LinkedIn) simply don’t work.
What do these these mythical Devops creatures look like? (Hint: a lot like unicorns and combs).
What is their natural habitat? (Shockingly, they don’t hang out on LinkedIn).
How can you capture them?
I’ve never seen a job I didn’t want to automate. Sometimes it’s worked out well, sometimes automation has turned a small nuisance into a big, fragile, free-time-eating monster nuisance. In this talk, I’ll explore why we automate, when to automate, the hazards of automation and the – big – rewards of automation. I’m part of the team developing IBM’s WebSphere Liberty application server. We’ve used a mix of off-the-shelf and home-rolled tools and processes to work smarter and more productively. I’ll describe what we’ve learned as WebSphere has transitioned to DevOps and continuous delivery and why I still can’t resist trying to automate all the things.
These are slides from WebDeLdn presentation, May 2019.
To non-designers, design can seem like a mysterious realm inhabited by natural artists — inscrutable beings whose heads are constantly in the clouds as they hunker down in Photoshop, desperately trying to get every last pixel aligned perfectly (Okay, maybe there’s a *bit* of truth to that). Realistically, design is just a series of informed decisions based on a set of principles guided by best practice. By learning the basics of design, you can make your WordPress sites and applications more usable and compelling. This session is meant for anyone new to design.
Has “DevOps” jumped the shark?
Some say yes; others say 2014 will be the year DevOps dons its Fonz-esque leather jacket. Whichever you believe, the marketing feeding frenzy has begun and the dilution of the “DevOps” concept to include everything (and simultaneously mean nothing) is palpable.
This talk deconstructs the meta-elements of DevOps that made it resonate so strongly with so many and allowed those familiar DevOps poster children—Netflix, Etsy, and others—to deploy the methodology with such success in their businesses. We’ll go beyond DevOps’ classical CAMS (culture, automation, metrics, and sharing) definition to discover what exactly what made DevOps relevant, and what about it is so timeless and foundational that it will make whatever-follows-DevOps relevant, too.
Designed to Be Clicked: Must-Know Design Principles for Social Media MarketersAlison Knott
Hold on to your hats – Alison is about to level up your design thinking with concepts that will take your social media graphics from “meh” to “holy-hell-I-want-to-click-that”. She’ll cover the secrets of C.R.A.P (seriously, that acronym is real), how to push your brand ahead of everyone else, avoiding template traps, the importance of typography and more. All with helpful before and after case studies to hit points home.
Your organization has embraced the Devops philosophy, and is growing. So you set out to hunt for Devops practitioners, and quickly find that usual hiring approaches (e.g., recruiters looking on LinkedIn) simply don’t work.
What do these these mythical Devops creatures look like? (Hint: a lot like unicorns and combs).
What is their natural habitat? (Shockingly, they don’t hang out on LinkedIn).
How can you capture them?
I’ve never seen a job I didn’t want to automate. Sometimes it’s worked out well, sometimes automation has turned a small nuisance into a big, fragile, free-time-eating monster nuisance. In this talk, I’ll explore why we automate, when to automate, the hazards of automation and the – big – rewards of automation. I’m part of the team developing IBM’s WebSphere Liberty application server. We’ve used a mix of off-the-shelf and home-rolled tools and processes to work smarter and more productively. I’ll describe what we’ve learned as WebSphere has transitioned to DevOps and continuous delivery and why I still can’t resist trying to automate all the things.
These are slides from WebDeLdn presentation, May 2019.
To non-designers, design can seem like a mysterious realm inhabited by natural artists — inscrutable beings whose heads are constantly in the clouds as they hunker down in Photoshop, desperately trying to get every last pixel aligned perfectly (Okay, maybe there’s a *bit* of truth to that). Realistically, design is just a series of informed decisions based on a set of principles guided by best practice. By learning the basics of design, you can make your WordPress sites and applications more usable and compelling. This session is meant for anyone new to design.
Has “DevOps” jumped the shark?
Some say yes; others say 2014 will be the year DevOps dons its Fonz-esque leather jacket. Whichever you believe, the marketing feeding frenzy has begun and the dilution of the “DevOps” concept to include everything (and simultaneously mean nothing) is palpable.
This talk deconstructs the meta-elements of DevOps that made it resonate so strongly with so many and allowed those familiar DevOps poster children—Netflix, Etsy, and others—to deploy the methodology with such success in their businesses. We’ll go beyond DevOps’ classical CAMS (culture, automation, metrics, and sharing) definition to discover what exactly what made DevOps relevant, and what about it is so timeless and foundational that it will make whatever-follows-DevOps relevant, too.
How not to kill with your Powerpoint. View in conjunction with speaker notes in Notes tab.
These are more or less as delivered at BarCamp Bradford on 14th November 2009.
Watch this as a video here ---> http://ian-d-smith.me.uk/rtp-resources/
Chasing Elephants - Alberto Brandolini - Codemotion Rome 2017Codemotion
Developers suffer from dangerous addictions. They draw pleasure in making things work. When this doesn't happen this could lead to dramatic consequences. Developers deprived of the possibility of making things work could start exposing dangerous behaviours like challenging authority and mainstream thinking. In extreme cases, they may even fall into the abyss of asking the forbidden question: "Why?"
How To Be A Real Developer In Two Easy Steps!northofnormal
Have some imposter syndrome? Worried that you aren't a *real* developer? You're in luck! There's an easy, anybody-can-do-it two-step process you can follow to conquer your fears and become a Real Developer. What are those two steps? Well...that's where it gets complicated. Come with Anne as she recounts her path into the world of software development, overcomes her fears, questions the nature of reality, and shows off a super cool Ruby script.
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.
Intuition & Use-Cases of Embeddings in NLP & beyondC4Media
Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/2LZgiKO.
Jay Alammar talks about the concept of word embeddings, how they're created, and looks at examples of how these concepts can be carried over to solve problems like content discovery and search ranking in marketplaces and media-consumption services (e.g. movie/music recommendations). Filmed at qconlondon.com.
Jay Alammar is VC and ML Explainer at STVcapital. He has helped tens of thousands of people wrap their heads around complex ML topics. He harnesses a visual, highly-intuitive presentation style to communicate concepts ranging from the most basic intros to data analysis, interactive intros to neural networks, to dissections of state-of-the-art models in Natural Language Processing.
This is the slide deck presented at the ACE! 2012 conference in Kraków in June 2012. If you joined the talk use the slides for reference. If you haven't seen the talk and have a chance to see it again, allow yourself to be surprised by skipping the slides for now ;)
How To Run a 5 Whys (With Humans, Not Robots)Dan Milstein
Slides from a talk at the Lean Startup conference (video link below).
Update: I've interleaved slides covering what I actually talked about onstage.
Update Update: video is up at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/27482093/highlight/310486
How to stop sucking and be awesome insteadcodinghorror
If you're reading this abstract, you're not awesome enough. Attend this session to unlock the secrets of Jeff Atwood, world famous blogger and industry leading co-founder of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange. Learn how you too can determine clear goals for your future and turn your dreams into reality through positive-minded conceptualization techniques.* Within six to eight weeks, you'll realize the positive effects of Jeff Atwood's wildly popular Coding Horror blog in your own life, transporting you to an exciting new world of wealth, happiness and political power.
If good design requires failure, how can designers f*ck up when failure isn’t considered an option?
Edison famously said, "I failed my way to success." In the interactive world, we've all heard the buzz phrases about failing fast, and how failure--particularly in the form of prototyping--can be a powerful design tool. But what about real failure? We've all experienced projects that never got off the ground, or crashed and burned stunningly. We don't put them in our portfolios. We only talk about them when we've had one drink too many. What can we learn from our embarrassments? And are there really things we can learn by failing, especially in the agency and consulting worlds, where we are hired for our expertise, and infallibility?
Questions to think about:
Can there be actual power, and knowledge in failure? What is your biggest failure, and what did you learn from it?
What are the different ways you can fail? Have you ever had a "successful" project that was a personal failure? Why? What can you learn from it?
Why are we so afraid of failing? What are the negative consequences of failure? And how can we encourage a positive viewpoint on failure?
How can we pull victory from the flames of defeat? How do you not panic when you sense yourself failing? How can you use your failure to inform future successes?
How can we build an acceptance of failure into a design or consulting practice? How can we get away from always having to be right, and move towards creative adaptability?
How to deliver effective presentations, by using the time-tested power of story-telling. Based largely upon guidance provided in Alexi Kapterev's book "Presentation Secrets."
First delivered at the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI's) CMMI Workshop in St. Petersburg, Florida, October 2012. [CmmiTraining.com]
How to Run a Post-Mortem (With Humans, Not Robots), Velocity 2013Dan Milstein
Slides (with annotations) from a talk on post-mortems at Velocity CA, 2013.
This is an expanded version of my earlier slides, from the Lean Startup Conf.
How not to kill with your Powerpoint. View in conjunction with speaker notes in Notes tab.
These are more or less as delivered at BarCamp Bradford on 14th November 2009.
Watch this as a video here ---> http://ian-d-smith.me.uk/rtp-resources/
Chasing Elephants - Alberto Brandolini - Codemotion Rome 2017Codemotion
Developers suffer from dangerous addictions. They draw pleasure in making things work. When this doesn't happen this could lead to dramatic consequences. Developers deprived of the possibility of making things work could start exposing dangerous behaviours like challenging authority and mainstream thinking. In extreme cases, they may even fall into the abyss of asking the forbidden question: "Why?"
How To Be A Real Developer In Two Easy Steps!northofnormal
Have some imposter syndrome? Worried that you aren't a *real* developer? You're in luck! There's an easy, anybody-can-do-it two-step process you can follow to conquer your fears and become a Real Developer. What are those two steps? Well...that's where it gets complicated. Come with Anne as she recounts her path into the world of software development, overcomes her fears, questions the nature of reality, and shows off a super cool Ruby script.
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.
Intuition & Use-Cases of Embeddings in NLP & beyondC4Media
Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/2LZgiKO.
Jay Alammar talks about the concept of word embeddings, how they're created, and looks at examples of how these concepts can be carried over to solve problems like content discovery and search ranking in marketplaces and media-consumption services (e.g. movie/music recommendations). Filmed at qconlondon.com.
Jay Alammar is VC and ML Explainer at STVcapital. He has helped tens of thousands of people wrap their heads around complex ML topics. He harnesses a visual, highly-intuitive presentation style to communicate concepts ranging from the most basic intros to data analysis, interactive intros to neural networks, to dissections of state-of-the-art models in Natural Language Processing.
This is the slide deck presented at the ACE! 2012 conference in Kraków in June 2012. If you joined the talk use the slides for reference. If you haven't seen the talk and have a chance to see it again, allow yourself to be surprised by skipping the slides for now ;)
How To Run a 5 Whys (With Humans, Not Robots)Dan Milstein
Slides from a talk at the Lean Startup conference (video link below).
Update: I've interleaved slides covering what I actually talked about onstage.
Update Update: video is up at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/27482093/highlight/310486
How to stop sucking and be awesome insteadcodinghorror
If you're reading this abstract, you're not awesome enough. Attend this session to unlock the secrets of Jeff Atwood, world famous blogger and industry leading co-founder of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange. Learn how you too can determine clear goals for your future and turn your dreams into reality through positive-minded conceptualization techniques.* Within six to eight weeks, you'll realize the positive effects of Jeff Atwood's wildly popular Coding Horror blog in your own life, transporting you to an exciting new world of wealth, happiness and political power.
If good design requires failure, how can designers f*ck up when failure isn’t considered an option?
Edison famously said, "I failed my way to success." In the interactive world, we've all heard the buzz phrases about failing fast, and how failure--particularly in the form of prototyping--can be a powerful design tool. But what about real failure? We've all experienced projects that never got off the ground, or crashed and burned stunningly. We don't put them in our portfolios. We only talk about them when we've had one drink too many. What can we learn from our embarrassments? And are there really things we can learn by failing, especially in the agency and consulting worlds, where we are hired for our expertise, and infallibility?
Questions to think about:
Can there be actual power, and knowledge in failure? What is your biggest failure, and what did you learn from it?
What are the different ways you can fail? Have you ever had a "successful" project that was a personal failure? Why? What can you learn from it?
Why are we so afraid of failing? What are the negative consequences of failure? And how can we encourage a positive viewpoint on failure?
How can we pull victory from the flames of defeat? How do you not panic when you sense yourself failing? How can you use your failure to inform future successes?
How can we build an acceptance of failure into a design or consulting practice? How can we get away from always having to be right, and move towards creative adaptability?
How to deliver effective presentations, by using the time-tested power of story-telling. Based largely upon guidance provided in Alexi Kapterev's book "Presentation Secrets."
First delivered at the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI's) CMMI Workshop in St. Petersburg, Florida, October 2012. [CmmiTraining.com]
How to Run a Post-Mortem (With Humans, Not Robots), Velocity 2013Dan Milstein
Slides (with annotations) from a talk on post-mortems at Velocity CA, 2013.
This is an expanded version of my earlier slides, from the Lean Startup Conf.
A Universal Theory of Everything, Christopher MurphyFuture Insights
Taken from the Future of Web Design, New York 2015 Conference. https://futureofwebdesign.com/nyc-2015/
Drawing on over two decades of experience designing and developing digital products, Christopher will walk you through everything he's learned along the way. He'll break apart the creative process, exploring how an understanding of that process, leads you to become a better designer. In this session, he'll explore how the best designers: firstly 'prime the brain' by ensuring it is constantly nourished with new material; then explore that material from multiple perspectives to gain a deep understanding of it; before, finally, putting those pieces back together again to create exciting new ideas that stand the test of time. In short, he'll ensure you leave the session fully creativity-hardened and never short of ideas again.
Horizon Interactive Awards, Mike Sauce & Jeff JahnFuture Insights
Taken from the Future of Web Design, San Francisco 2015 Conference. https://futureofwebdesign.com/san-francisco-2015/
Mike Sauce, Founder and President of the Horizon Interactive Awards will present an award to the Most Awarded Developer in the 13th annual competition to DynamiX Web Design. Jeff Jahn, owner and founder of DynamiX, will discuss design trends, processes and technologies that led his company to achieve such a high honor in the Horizon Interactive Awards competition.
Reading Your Users’ Minds: Empiricism, Design, and Human Behavior, Shane F. B...Future Insights
Taken from the Future of Web Design, New York 2015 Conference. https://futureofwebdesign.com/nyc-2015/
How do you decide what your users really need? The difficult truth is that the best web design comes from finding out for yourself. Luckily for anyone passionate about improving web-based human interaction, the field of psychology can shed light on common motivations, needs, and biases that are powerful influences on human behavior. In this session, you’ll learn about how these psychological forces—such as prospect theory, metacognitive fluency, and the introspection illusion—can shed light on UX, design, and conversion.
Structuring Data from Unstructured Things. Sean LorenzFuture Insights
From FOWA Boston 2015
Structuring Data from Unstructured Things. Sean Lorenz
Data coming from Internet of Things (IoT) product sensors can be hard to manage or know what to do with. In this talk Sean will discuss ways to tame IoT data sources by organizing and pruning that information effectively. He will also discuss the importance of time series when culminating sensor, metadata and other data sources together, making it vastly easier to query or perform analytics on your newly structured data.
Taken from the Future of Web Design, New York 2015 Conference. https://futureofwebdesign.com/nyc-2015/
The process behind making a blockbuster film is similar to creating a meaningful website or app. Through the lens of cinema, we’ll walk through practical ways that UX design teams can work together to deliver an award-winning final product. Whether you’re making a low-budget indie for a non-profit or the next summer smash for a Fortune 500, we can learn a thing or two from film.
Taken from the Future of Web Design, San Francisco 2015 Conference. https://futureofwebdesign.com/san-francisco-2015/
In the last few years, we’ve seen an emergence of a modular way of thinking about code and design. We’ve seen the rise of SMACSS, BEM, and Atomic Design. This talk will look at those modular concepts and how they can streamline development for large and long-running projects. We’ll also look at how these approaches can ease responsive design and development. Lastly, we will look at where the modular approach is going in the future as Web Components slowly make their way into browsers and application frameworks.
Designing an Enterprise CSS Framework is Hard, Stephanie RewisFuture Insights
Taken from the Future of Web Design, San Francisco 2015 Conference. https://futureofwebdesign.com/san-francisco-2015/
It seems that not a week goes by without a shiny new framework of some type — be it CSS or JS. But no matter how awesome they are, each have shortcomings and idiosyncrasies that invariably make you ask, 'Why?' Now imagine someone gave you the ability to start from scratch to create your own framework. No strings. No preconceptions — well, except that it has to be enterprise scale, platform agnostic, and work in a whole host of disparate situations. In this session, Stephanie will talk about some of the challenges, hurdles, tradeoffs, and unique decisions Salesforce UX made on the way to building an enterprise framework.
Accessibility Is More Than What Lies In The Code, Jennison AsuncionFuture Insights
Taken from the Future of Web Design, San Francisco 2015 Conference. https://futureofwebdesign.com/san-francisco-2015/
Many associate making a digital product accessible with the guidelines and specifications that address themselves at the code-level. In short, the developers/engineers will take care of it. While the thoughtful implementation of accessible code during the development phase is unquestionable, the truth is accessibility depends heavily on choices made by designers and others involved in determining the user experience, and typically before development begins. Join Jennison as he illustrates this by identifying some of the user interactions and design-related decisions that can pose accessibility challenges. He will also share practical advice for those seeking to scale accessibility and make it a shared responsibility.
Sunny with a Chance of Innovation: A How-To for Product Managers and Designer...Future Insights
Taken from the Future of Web Design, San Francisco 2015 Conference. https://futureofwebdesign.com/san-francisco-2015/
Growth stage companies need to continue to be as innovative as they were as smaller startups - but how do you actually do it? How can product leaders and designers de-risk valuable new ideas and get the support required to actually execute? From the perspective of a product owner and a designer respectively, Audrey and Alexa will walk through how they ran an innovation team on a recent project. They'll discuss how they rallied a broader group of stakeholders around big and risky ideas, testing the limits of experimentation, and turning small-scale experimental code into real life features. Thinking big and executing in layers is the future of innovation. You will walk away with some easy methods to start launching experiments at your company, regardless of whether you come from a three-person startup or a huge corporation.
Taken from the Future of Web Design, New York 2015 Conference. https://futureofwebdesign.com/nyc-2015/
The future must be universally approachable. In this talk, Andrew looks at designing for dyslexic users. Learn how to create designs that are more universal; designs that not only better fit dyslexics, but are a better fit for everyone regardless of race, religion, national origin, language or ability.
Taken from the Future of Web Design, San Francisco 2015 Conference. https://futureofwebdesign.com/san-francisco-2015/
Site analytics. The quantified self. Big data. Human activity is creating more and more measurable data. But is more data really helping designers make better decisions? Human problems often require illogical approaches. In order to meet real human needs, we need to approach the data we collect with empathy and find the story in the facts.
Taken from the Future of Web Design, San Francisco 2015 Conference. https://futureofwebdesign.com/san-francisco-2015/
We need to create processes that get us away from nice looking design files to actually shipping our projects into the real world.
FOWA London 2015
In recent years there have been incredible advances in artificial intelligence and deep learning. As a result, powerful technology which used to be rare and expensive has very quickly become easily available and cheap. This will have both positive and negative consequences for web developers. In this talk I will look at how AI will change the development field, and provide techniques that will help designers and developers to work with AI to improve their skills and make better sites and applications for end users.
Digital Manuscripts Toolkit, using IIIF and JavaScript. Monica Messaggi KayaFuture Insights
FOWA London 2015
Monica is part of the DMT project at the Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford) that aims to create a toolkit using IIIF standard (http://iiif.io) for images, a server solution (to store images of manuscripts and metadata), and a client solution using JavaScript to build an authoring tool that allows editing the manuscript manifest and its metadata. Working specifically on the authoring tool, and on the challenges that different types of manifests presents for the developer. You will have a glimpse of the whole picture and then she taps into the libraries used, choices made, collaboration experiences and lessons learned so far.
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?
Transforming Brand Perception and Boosting Profitabilityaaryangarg12
In today's digital era, the dynamics of brand perception, consumer behavior, and profitability have been profoundly reshaped by the synergy of branding, social media, and website design. This research paper investigates the transformative power of these elements in influencing how individuals perceive brands and products and how this transformation can be harnessed to drive sales and profitability for businesses.
Through an exploration of brand psychology and consumer behavior, this study sheds light on the intricate ways in which effective branding strategies, strategic social media engagement, and user-centric website design contribute to altering consumers' perceptions. We delve into the principles that underlie successful brand transformations, examining how visual identity, messaging, and storytelling can captivate and resonate with target audiences.
Methodologically, this research employs a comprehensive approach, combining qualitative and quantitative analyses. Real-world case studies illustrate the impact of branding, social media campaigns, and website redesigns on consumer perception, sales figures, and profitability. We assess the various metrics, including brand awareness, customer engagement, conversion rates, and revenue growth, to measure the effectiveness of these strategies.
The results underscore the pivotal role of cohesive branding, social media influence, and website usability in shaping positive brand perceptions, influencing consumer decisions, and ultimately bolstering sales and profitability. This paper provides actionable insights and strategic recommendations for businesses seeking to leverage branding, social media, and website design as potent tools to enhance their market position and financial success.
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.
White wonder, Work developed by Eva TschoppMansi Shah
White Wonder by Eva Tschopp
A tale about our culture around the use of fertilizers and pesticides visiting small farms around Ahmedabad in Matar and Shilaj.
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> The blacksmith's horse walks barefoot
> The tailor can't sew his own rip
> the knives are always dull in a blacksmith's house
> mechanics always drive beat-up old cars
> plumbers have leaky pipes
> A housekeeper's house is never clean
It also applies to different professions:
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32. Specctr wasn't’ the sexy design project
that I imagined when I felt there was a
gap between where I was and where I
wanted to be..
Organic Geometry Part II
David Brodeur
33. These are just a handful of the companies using Specctr.
43. — TechShop CEO Mark Hatch
http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/
“Machines we have today are the cheapest,
easiest and most powerful than they have
ever been.”
44. We have never had so many tools and possibilities at our
fingertips. We are trained at both design thinking and
problem solving and we have the tangible skills and crafts to
bring our idea to fruition. This is incredible
45. Companies founded by
designers
Pinterest , slideshare , FuseProject , theicebreak, Behance , Typekit,
Vimeo, Foodspotting, 955, Dreams, Path, Air BNB, Flickr, Tumblr, YouTube,
Kickstarter… and many more
46. How do we make sure we are going to ride this wave
and use design..
.as a process
..as a mode of thinking
…as a tool to sharpen our creativity
….to problem solve
……not just a skill to produce
48. Critique | 1
Hierarchy | 2
Contrast | 3
Break Your Grid | 4
Create Space | 5
Love + Process | 6
49. 1. Critique
What do I want to spend more time on?
How can my day be better?
What part is hard for me and why?
Why is what I’m doing important?
Is there anything I would change?
51. “The creative process, in essence, is an individual in
dialogue with themselves and the work.”
— Frank Chimero (Shape of Design)
52. “The process of engaging in meaningful critique of your work
decreases the amount of time spent holding on to design decisions
that may not actually solve the problems you are facing and open
the door to constructive conversations that highlight specific and
actionable solutions you would not have arrived at on your own.”
— JOSHUA BREWER : 52weeksofux.com
57. “Thinkers who exploit opposing ideas to construct a new solution
enjoy a built-in advantage over thinkers who can consider only
one model at a time”
— Roger Martin, The Opposable Mind
opposite ideas
72. We also need this kind of white space and
breathing room in our day to create our
most effective work.
73. “Often when one works at a hard question, nothing good is
accomplished at the first attack…Then one takes a rest,
longer or shorter, and sits down anew to the work. During the
first half-hour, as before, nothing is found, and then all of a
sudden the decisive idea presents itself to the mind.”
Henri Poincaré, The Foundations of Science
80. RESOURCESTHE GAP BY IRA GLASS https://vimeo.com/85040589
IDEO DESIGN TOOLKIT http://www.designkit.org/methods
ON CRITIQUE http://52weeksofux.com/post/743059883/critique-me-please
FRANK CHIMERO http://frankchimero.com/writing/designing-in-the-borderlands/ + http://read.shapeofdesignbook.com/chapter01.html
ON CREATING SPACE http://www.fastcodesign.com/3035811/evidence/the-key-to-creative-insight-interrupt-yourself
ON FINDING YOUR VOICE http://www.jamesvictore.com/
CREATIVE EXERCISES http://www.howdesign.com/design-creativity/creative-exercises/
DESIGN FOUNDERS http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665795/silicon-valleys-new-secret-weapon-designers-who-found-startups
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3042906/the-ceo-of-the-future-is-a-designer-in-chief
http://designerfund.com/
SPECCTR https://www.specctr.com/ Use code “FUTUREINSIGHTS” FOR 25% OFF
SERIOUS PLAY LEADS TO INNOVATION http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671971/how-serious-play-leads-to-breakthrough-innovation http://
DESIGN AND THE PLAY INSTINCT BY PAUL RAND http://www.paul-rand.com/foundation/thoughts_designAndthePlayInstinct/#.VWzLFFxVhBd