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BEING a designer

Well-rounded. BEING a designer. Nurturing talents | Developing skills | Building strengths| Keeping good habits. Note Sketching Graphic facilitation Pen mind dump sketchbook doodle Sketching from Life Pencil Idea sketching Paper Formal training art school. Talent+ skill.

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BEING a designer

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  1. Well-rounded BEING a designer Nurturing talents | Developing skills | Building strengths| Keeping good habits

  2. Note Sketching Graphic facilitationPen mind dump sketchbookdoodleSketching from Life Pencil Idea sketching PaperFormal training art school Talent+ skill

  3. Paper Hi-low fidelity FlashFlexHTML CSS Javascript wireframes mockups User testing rigormultiple iterations Skill

  4. Styles trendsInspiration creative brief textures patterns Color Palette Visual appeal Physical artifactTypographyClient buy-in Personality Mood Skill

  5. Presentation conceptsArticulation Scenarios defensive Devil in the detail defending ideas Sell tell stories devil’s advocate Faith Talent + skill

  6. People connectionsListening User observation User interviewsbusiness needs Creative brief critiquing Strength + skill

  7. GROWING as a designer Keeping current | Being Social | Pushing Innovation | Leading

  8. 6 Managing time & talent staying focused current creativity & serendipity Time management To-do lists Planwrite read feeds Procrastination Bonus slide!

  9. 7 Networking developing contacts new business new knowledge cross-pollination of ideas pushing innovation design entrepreneurship Bonus slide!

  10. Okay, gotcha. What next? Online resources | Books | Education

  11. In the cloud/Blogosphere http://adaptivepath.com/ideas/newsletter/ Interesting use of sketching - http://www.gogamestorm.com/?p=42 Empathy mapping - Why Designers Fail and What to do about it – presentation by Scott Berkun (Making a point about pitching)http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/24/seven-must-see-web-design-videos-and-presentations/ - http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2008/12/why-mood-boards-matter/ Nice article on Mood-boarding - Web designer resources http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/

  12. Good old books http://www.thebackofthenapkin.com/ Solving problems with pictures by Dan Roam Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design by Bill Buxton - http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/prototyping/ Prototyping: A Practitioner's Guide by Todd Warfel - Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research by Mike Kuniavsky - IdeaSelling: Successfully Pitch Your Creative Ideas to Bosses, Clients & other Decision Makers by Sam Harrison Going the whole hog http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/ http://www.nid.edu/ http://srishti.ac.in/ http://ciid.dk/ http://www.design.cmu.edu/show_program.php?s=2&t=3

  13. Thank you! http://vimeo.com/8362481 Designers’ journey from Sketchbook to final product.

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