How can the designer make themselves relevant in the unpredictable market.

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Design
Your Career Path As A
Designer

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My Path

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2001 - 2002
Mul$media
Designer
2004 - 2007
Crea$ve Technology
Interac$on Designer
2004 - 2012
Orita Sinclair School of Design, New Medai & Art
Adjunct Lecturer
2004 - 2010
Republic Polytechnic
Academic Associate
2010 - 2014
Singapore Polytechnic
Adjunct Lecturer
Hyper Island
Master of Digital
Management
Dec 2014
Kaplan
Murdoch University
Part-Time Lecturer
20162007
Design Company Setup
Design Company Setup
in Yangon
My Path

4. 20 yr old ++
Passionate
Problem

5. 20 yr old ++ 30 yr old ++
Passionate Questioning
Problem

6. 20 yr old ++ 30 yr old ++ 40 yr old ++
Passionate Questioning Dreaming
Problem

7. Design Your Career Path

8. Find Your Why
Choose the Mountain to Climb
1

9. I want to be a designer
because _____________
(i.e. I want to make the world a be?er place,
I want to help people with design )
20 years ++
Find Your Why 1
Achievement

10. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So
throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain

11. My passion is
_____________
(i.e. drawing, telling story with photos,
craJing things, )
2 years ++
Find Your Passion 2

12. Find Your Passion
Technical / Technology Art / Design Business
Learning to use the tools Crea@vity Understand the User
Needs and Business Goal
2

13. Find Your Passion
Technical / Technology Art / Design Business
Programming
- Web Programming
- App Programming
Html, CSS, Javascript, Swi;, Ruby,
A;ereffects Script, Python, AS 3.0 and
etc
Digital FabricaGon: 3D printer, CNC.
Offset prinGng, Film development,
Technical wriGng
- Front-end Developer, Prototyper, Data
Scraper, Printer, Maker, Videographer
Learning to use the tools Crea@vity
2
Understand the User
Needs and Business Goal

14. Find Your Passion
Technical / Technology Art / Design Business
Drawing, Sketching, Storyboarding,
AnimaGon, Material studies, SpaGal
design, InteracGon design,
Anthropology, Copy wriGng,
History of Design/Art, Psychology,
Scent design, inclusive design,
photography, 360 video
- Web designer, Print designer, UX
designer, IXD designer, UI designer,
Interior designer, Photographer,
Product designer
Learning to use the tools Crea@vity
2
Understand the User
Needs and Business Goal

15. Find Your Passion
Technical / Technology Art / Design Business
Lean Startup, MarkeGng,
Business Management, Agile/
Scrum, Pitching, Business
Development, Digital
MarkeGng, SEO, SEM, Google
AnalyGcs, Adobe AnalyGcs,
Data Analysis, Market
Researcher
Learning to use the tools Crea@vity
2
Understand the User
Needs and Business Goal

16. Plan Your Learning
Technical /
Technology
Art / Design Business
WebsiteDesign
LogoDesign
StoryBoarding
Graphicdesign
HTML/CSS
WordpressCMS
SEOMarkeGng
1st Year
Photoshop
3

17. Plan Your Learning
WebsiteDesign
LogoDesign
StoryBoarding
Graphicdesign
HTML/CSS
WordpressCMS
SEOMarkeGng
2nd Year
Photoshop
Sketch
UserInterfaceDesign
UserResearch
Technical /
Technology
Art / Design Business
Swi;
3

18. Plan Your Learning
Technical /
Technology
Art/ Design
Business
3
Unicorn
Design Director
Product Director
User Interface Designer
Visual Designer
InteracOon Designer
User Experience Designer
Service Designer
Product Designer
Growth Hacker
Digital Strategiest
Art DIrector
CreaOve Director
Graphic Designer
Web Designer

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In the digital design industry, a
“unicorn” is a designer that
can create outstanding
idenOty, websites, web or
applicaOon UI, user experience
flows and studies as well as
implement their work.
Are you an Unicorn?
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Find a Mentor & a Inspiring Team
This way
Just hang on!
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Team is Everything

21. "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you
can only connect them looking backwards. So you
have to trust that the dots will somehow connect
in your future. You have to trust in something —
your gut, desOny, life, karma, whatever. "
Steve Jobs

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Discover Your Strength 5

23. 10 years ++
Discover Your Strength
Your Passion is not
Your Strength.
Your Strength is not
Your Passion.
5

24. 10 years ++
Discover Your Strength
Passion
Strength
Sweet Spot
5

25. My strength is
_____________
(i.e. ability to see new opportuniOes,
ability to help people to see their own strength, )
10 years ++
Discover Your Strength 5

26. 10 years ++
Discover Your Strength
Educator
Startup
Design
Consultant
5
i.e AirBnB

27. Recap
1.Find Your Why

28. Recap
1.Find Your Why
2.Find Your Passion

29. Recap
1.Find Your Why
2.Find Your Passion
3.Plan Your Learning

30. Recap
1.Find Your Why
2.Find Your Passion
3.Plan Your Learning
4.Find a Mentor & Team

31. Recap
1.Find Your Why
2.Find Your Passion
3.Plan Your Learning
4.Find a Mentor & Team
5.Discover Your Strength
Achievement

32. T-Shaped Person
The vertical bar of the T
refers to expert knowledge
and experience in a
particular area.
While the top of the T refers
to an ability to collaborate
with experts in other
disciplines.
TDeep Skill
Broad Knowledge
IDEO - Tim Brown

33. T-Shaped Person
“The neo-generalist defies easy
classification. They are tricksters
who traverse multiple domains,
living between categories and
labels. Encompassing rather than
rejecting, the neo-generalist is both
specialist and generalist. A restless
multidisciplinarian who is forever
learning. They bring together
diverse people, synthesising ideas
and practice, addressing the big
issues that confront us in order to
shape a better future.”
TDeep Skill
Broad Knowledge
Kenneth Mikkelsen and
Richard Martin

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