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

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

Well-rounded

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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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Paper Hi-low fidelity

Flash Flex HTML CSS Javascript wireframes

mockups User testing rigor multiple iterations

Skill

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Styles trends

Inspiration creative brief textures

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

MoodSkill

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Presentation concepts

Articulation Scenarios defensive Devil in the

detail defending ideas Sell tell stories devil’s

advocate Faith

Talent + skill

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People connections

Listening User

observation User interviews business needs Creative

brief critiquing

Strength + skill

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GROWING as a designer

Keeping current | Being Social | Pushing Innovation | Leading

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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

Bonus slide!Bonus slide!

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Okay, gotcha. What next?

Online resources | Books | Education

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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/

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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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Thank you!http://vimeo.com/8362481

Designers’ journey from Sketchbook to final product.