The document discusses the concept of a "fractal professional" and how it differs from traditional approaches. A fractal professional has T-shaped skills rather than vertical expertise and takes an iterative, observational approach to problem-solving and validation rather than definitive or survey-based. They communicate strategies through visual and multimedia scenarios instead of spreadsheets. Characteristics of becoming a fractal professional include reading widely, building a large network, having an elevator pitch ready, and fostering leadership skills.
The objective is to explain how a software design may be represented as a set of interacting objects that manage their own state and operations and to introduce various models that describe an object-oriented design.
The Fractal Professional
(part of)
Guest Lecture: Pimp My Life
Monday, August 16th, 7pm - 8pm
Tweaked Identities, Tricked-Out Ideas, and Big-Time Transformation. Tom Klinkowstein and Dr. Anna Akbari rethink the traditional, linear career path model as a sort of personalized, labyrinth-like "choose your own adventure" novel, and explore the large-scale significance of personal adaptations and customized lives.
@WixLounge
10 W. 18th st, 2nd Fl
New York, NY 10011
The Fractal Professional
(part of)
Guest Lecture: Pimp My Life
Monday, August 16th, 7pm - 8pm
Tweaked Identities, Tricked-Out Ideas, and Big-Time Transformation. Tom Klinkowstein and Dr. Anna Akbari rethink the traditional, linear career path model as a sort of personalized, labyrinth-like "choose your own adventure" novel, and explore the large-scale significance of personal adaptations and customized lives.
@WixLounge
10 W. 18th st, 2nd Fl
New York, NY 10011
Over the last couple of years I've talked a lot on Design Thinking, Design in general and Service Design.
This presentation is my incomplete story on the topic, with storyline.
Hope you like it, love your comments...
The objective is to explain how a software design may be represented as a set of interacting objects that manage their own state and operations and to introduce various models that describe an object-oriented design.
The Fractal Professional
(part of)
Guest Lecture: Pimp My Life
Monday, August 16th, 7pm - 8pm
Tweaked Identities, Tricked-Out Ideas, and Big-Time Transformation. Tom Klinkowstein and Dr. Anna Akbari rethink the traditional, linear career path model as a sort of personalized, labyrinth-like "choose your own adventure" novel, and explore the large-scale significance of personal adaptations and customized lives.
@WixLounge
10 W. 18th st, 2nd Fl
New York, NY 10011
The Fractal Professional
(part of)
Guest Lecture: Pimp My Life
Monday, August 16th, 7pm - 8pm
Tweaked Identities, Tricked-Out Ideas, and Big-Time Transformation. Tom Klinkowstein and Dr. Anna Akbari rethink the traditional, linear career path model as a sort of personalized, labyrinth-like "choose your own adventure" novel, and explore the large-scale significance of personal adaptations and customized lives.
@WixLounge
10 W. 18th st, 2nd Fl
New York, NY 10011
Over the last couple of years I've talked a lot on Design Thinking, Design in general and Service Design.
This presentation is my incomplete story on the topic, with storyline.
Hope you like it, love your comments...
Tom Klinkowstein's July 20, 2010 presentation to Dr. Anna Akbari's, Global Issues in Design and Visuality in the 21st Century: Culture, Parsons The New School for Design, New York
Klinkowstein tom design and value(s) in the interconnected stateThomas Klinkowstein
Lecture at AIGA Geographics conference, December 2012. Highlights from a cooperative course on design and values held simultaneously with Pratt Institute of Art and Design in New York and AKV St. Joost Art and Design Academy in Breda, The Netherlands.
This set of method cards introduces briefly the design thinking approach. It explains the design process as well as the prototyping phases of design thinking projects.
There basically 2 ways of getting involved with the University of St.Gallen in order to have a design thinking team working for your organization.
1. Design Thinking @ HSG
2. Embedded Design Thinking
Both ways are explained in the set.
For more information visit http://dthsg.com
Participation on the Maker and Design Discipline at Insper taught by super knowledgeable Heloísa Neves. I was invite to talk about Design Thinking.
The idea is to avoid the cliché post-its on the wall and workshop-like pictures and focus on Design Thinking's efficacy and pillar and why it matters to organisations.
Despite the existence of a Software Craftsmanship Manifesto on the web, the majority of software development does not require a craftsman to build. In this session we will examine the conflicting priorities software development teams must navigate and discuss various definitions of craftsmen and how they relate to building software. This session will be a mix of prepared content and discussion in which the audience will be asked to evaluate the role of well crafted code in the context of their own development team.
I Hate Process/I Love Process - Why designers are divided about process, and ...Joan Vermette
As a designer, have you ever felt frustrated by having to break the creative process up into tiny task boxes that block the way to good design? Have you ever felt frustrated by a lack of structure, leading to endless rework, crossed communication lines, and plain old wasted time? There's too much process in some cultures, and not enough in others. And we declare that we hate process or we love process, as though that were an immutable quality of our souls. But what do designers need? We believe in a core, necessary way of sequencing design work to get the best results. Borrowing from Design Sojourn’s Brian Ling, we express this core as “Think – Draw – Make.” When process chafes us as designers, it’s a sign that an organization is unbalanced in one of these three key activities. If they front-load a project with tons of research and still can’t make a decision, they’re caught in “think.” If they ask us to come to the kickoff with wireframes, they’re caught in “draw.” If they’re hell-bent on getting to build immediately, they’re caught in “make.” Similarly, we’re not blank slates, either – each of us brings our particular skills to a project, and we have our own attachments, as well. Our presentation will discuss how to know which culture you’re dealing with, where you sit with regard to that culture, and provide some skills for how to bring yourself and the culture together back into balance.
Tom Klinkowstein's July 20, 2010 presentation to Dr. Anna Akbari's, Global Issues in Design and Visuality in the 21st Century: Culture, Parsons The New School for Design, New York
Klinkowstein tom design and value(s) in the interconnected stateThomas Klinkowstein
Lecture at AIGA Geographics conference, December 2012. Highlights from a cooperative course on design and values held simultaneously with Pratt Institute of Art and Design in New York and AKV St. Joost Art and Design Academy in Breda, The Netherlands.
This set of method cards introduces briefly the design thinking approach. It explains the design process as well as the prototyping phases of design thinking projects.
There basically 2 ways of getting involved with the University of St.Gallen in order to have a design thinking team working for your organization.
1. Design Thinking @ HSG
2. Embedded Design Thinking
Both ways are explained in the set.
For more information visit http://dthsg.com
Participation on the Maker and Design Discipline at Insper taught by super knowledgeable Heloísa Neves. I was invite to talk about Design Thinking.
The idea is to avoid the cliché post-its on the wall and workshop-like pictures and focus on Design Thinking's efficacy and pillar and why it matters to organisations.
Despite the existence of a Software Craftsmanship Manifesto on the web, the majority of software development does not require a craftsman to build. In this session we will examine the conflicting priorities software development teams must navigate and discuss various definitions of craftsmen and how they relate to building software. This session will be a mix of prepared content and discussion in which the audience will be asked to evaluate the role of well crafted code in the context of their own development team.
I Hate Process/I Love Process - Why designers are divided about process, and ...Joan Vermette
As a designer, have you ever felt frustrated by having to break the creative process up into tiny task boxes that block the way to good design? Have you ever felt frustrated by a lack of structure, leading to endless rework, crossed communication lines, and plain old wasted time? There's too much process in some cultures, and not enough in others. And we declare that we hate process or we love process, as though that were an immutable quality of our souls. But what do designers need? We believe in a core, necessary way of sequencing design work to get the best results. Borrowing from Design Sojourn’s Brian Ling, we express this core as “Think – Draw – Make.” When process chafes us as designers, it’s a sign that an organization is unbalanced in one of these three key activities. If they front-load a project with tons of research and still can’t make a decision, they’re caught in “think.” If they ask us to come to the kickoff with wireframes, they’re caught in “draw.” If they’re hell-bent on getting to build immediately, they’re caught in “make.” Similarly, we’re not blank slates, either – each of us brings our particular skills to a project, and we have our own attachments, as well. Our presentation will discuss how to know which culture you’re dealing with, where you sit with regard to that culture, and provide some skills for how to bring yourself and the culture together back into balance.
11. The Fractal Profession
Design, Innovation & Passion
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Horizon Projects Workshop Tom Klinkowstein
Becoming a Fractal Professional
12. The Future of Design
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Be Your Own Trend Forecaster:
-Read Wide (WSJ, NYT, Financial Times,
Economist, etc.)
-Write Narrow (tweet, blog, etc.)
-Attend conferences of other disciplines
(you’ll be exotic; go early / stay late)
13. The Future of Design
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Build Your Network:
-Meet 10 new people every week to
Find partners / clients
Recruit others to be your agents
Connect your nodes via salons, meals
Create a braintrust (own Board of Directors)
14. The Future of Design
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Horizon Projects Workshop Tom Klinkowstein
Be Prepared:
-Cards
-Smartphone, etc. with your work on it
-Elevator pitch (your short story)
-Café pitch (longer version)
-Reciprocal altruism
15. The Future of Design
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Horizon Projects Workshop Tom Klinkowstein
Tom Klinkowstein
Foster Leadership Skills:
-Learn to work with “people you don’t like”
16. The Future of Design
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Have a Dialog:
-Its not just what you want, its what
the world wants of you.
17. The Future of Design
Design Thinking
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Horizon Projects Workshop Tom Klinkowstein
Thank you.
klinkows@mediaa.com