The Designer’s Guide to Being Essential

BEING ESSENTIAL Simon Collison | @colly The Designer’s Guide to

WHO WE ARE

ABOUT US

ABOUT BEING HUMAN

Trousers slide

RECONNECTING

DISCONNECTING

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. John Muir

RECONNECTING

HUMANS. INDIVIDUALS.

AM I A BETTER DESIGNER?

MY LIFE IS MODULAR

I move things around until they look right.

Milton Glaser

I move things around until they look right.

Milton Glaser

I move things around until they look right.

Milton Glaser

WHEN I WAS A KID…

THIS IS WHO WE ARE

THE DEATH OF WEB DESIGN

DESIGN EVOLVES

MACHINES

[A designer is] a planner with an aesthetic sense.

Bruno Munari

EMPATHY

How will you prove you’re be ! er than a machine? Travis Gertz h ! ps://louderthanten.com/articles/story/design-machines

TOOLS

SHOULD WE CODE?

HTML is not code. It's markup.

Just like typese ! ing. Which is firmly in the realm of designers. Mark Boulton

HTML is not code. It's markup.

Just like typese ! ing. Which is firmly in the realm of designers. Mark Boulton

http://tools.subtraction.com

BRAINS. IDEAS. REALISATION.

MY TEAM

DELIVERABLES

http://smacss.com

http://daverupert.com/2013/04/responsive-deliverables

http://filamentgroup.com/lab/grade_components/

http://pattern-lab.info/

LANGUAGE

Find problems and design responses. Not answers, not solutions. Responses.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy . Jack Torrance

FLEXIBILITY

KEEP LEARNING

@colly THANK YOU