Designing the designer

Designing the Designer

Destination

What do you think you’ll be doing in five years? Interview question

Doing

Are you in your work?

It took me until my 40s to realize: There’s no destination. There’s no ge ! ing anywhere. There’s just the going. Pa ! on Oswalt

The reason that most of us are unhappy most of the time is that we set our goals—not for the person we’re going to be when we reach them—we set our goals for the person we are when we set them. Dan Gilbert

Not necessarily slowing down, but rather just opting out of speed. Frank Chimero

Serendipity

Strengths & values

To progress and to create work of substance or even greatness, we each must start by knowing our values, our strengths, and the level of expertise we seek Strengths and values

I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. Thomas Edison

Our strengths find us

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Learning

I’m self-actualised, without the stamp of approval from any guild, curriculum authority, or academic institution. I’m web taught. Colleague taught. Empirically taught. Jon Tan

The sad, beautiful fact that we’re all going to miss almost everything Linda Holmes

Cra "

Cra " smanship is a basic human impulse: the desire to do a job well for its own sake Richard Senne !

Tools

Tools are the scaffold for what we produce, the enablers. They help us bring our ideas to fruition. Our tools

The tool doesn’t make the cra " sman. Choosing the right tool for the right purpose is a technical and personal choice. Oliver Reichenstein

delight / emotion / surprise systems / constraint / restraint simplicity / complexity / focus context / reduction

Creative inquiry

Inquiring beyond the “necessary” to explore other areas, look at things differently, and bring these findings back into our work. Creative inquiry

Drone

New design principles

The web is not print.

The screen brings with it different kinds of challenges for visual design, some of which occur exclusively in interactive media. Jason Santa Maria, designer

It’s unrealistic to think our old methods can fill in all the gaps, but new interaction pa ! erns and visual languages emerge everyday. Jason Santa Maria, designer

These are the building blocks for our new design principles. Jason Santa Maria, designer

Systems

We don’t design web pages. We design system s.

Responsive

Ethan states that a responsive design is composed of three distinct parts: 1. Flexible grid 2. Flexible images 3. Media queries

The frame

The complete designer

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

Design is more than just a job.

Talent is cheap You have to be possessed, which you can’t will You have to be in the right place at the right time

The extra ordinary in the ordinary

Simon Collison / @colly / colly.com