Designing the designer

A presentation at Design Camp® 2012 in October 2012 in Nisswa, MN 56468, USA by Simon Collison

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Destination

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

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Doing

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Are you in your work?

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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

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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

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

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Serendipity

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Strengths & values

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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

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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

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Our strengths find us

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designer developer strategist writer educator manager web designer 100%

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designer developer strategist writer educator manager web designer 100%

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Learning

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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

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

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Cra "

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

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Tools

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

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

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

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Creative inquiry

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

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Drone

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New design principles

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The web is not print.

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

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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

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

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Systems

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

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Responsive

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

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The frame

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The complete designer

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

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Design is more than just a job.

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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

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The extra ordinary in the ordinary

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Simon Collison / @colly / colly.com