BEING a designer Nurturing talents | Developing skills | Building strengths| Keeping good habits...

BEING a designerNurturing talents | Developing skills | Building strengths| Keeping good habits

Well-rounded

Note Sketching Graphic

facilitation Pen mind dump sketchbook doodle Sketching from Life Pencil Idea sketching Paper Formal training art school

Talent+ skill

Paper Hi-low fidelity

Flash Flex HTML CSS Javascript wireframes

mockups User testing rigor multiple iterations

Skill

Styles trends

Inspiration creative brief textures

patterns Color Palette Visual appeal Physical artifact Typography Client buy-in Personality

MoodSkill

Presentation concepts

Articulation Scenarios defensive Devil in the

detail defending ideas Sell tell stories devil’s

advocate Faith

Talent + skill

People connections

Listening User

observation User interviews business needs Creative

brief critiquing

Strength + skill

GROWING as a designer

Keeping current | Being Social | Pushing Innovation | Leading

6 staying focused current creativity & serendipity Time management To-

do lists Plan write read feeds Procrastination

Managing time & talent

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7 developing contacts

new business new knowledge cross-pollination of ideas

pushing innovation design entrepreneurship

Networking

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Okay, gotcha. What next?

Online resources | Books | Education

In the cloud/Blogospherehttp://adaptivepath.com/ideas/newsletter/Interesting use of sketching-http://www.gogamestorm.com/?p=42Empathy 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 resourceshttp://www.smashingmagazine.com/http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/

Good old bookshttp://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 hoghttp://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

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Designers’ journey from Sketchbook to final product.