Creative Workshop: Author's Talk at SxSWi

This is an author's talk about "Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills," delivered at South by Southwest Interactive festival on Friday, March 11th, 2011.

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Creative Workshop: Author's Talk at SxSWi from David Sherwin

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• 1. DaviD Sherwin@changeorder / #CWBook
• 2. what skills do tomorrow’sdesigners need?
• 3. Photoshop Flash Axure Illustrator Catalyst MS Office InDesign Blend XML HTML5 Processing Objective C CSS3 Visio Java Javascript Omnigraffle …?a quick survey of job ads
• 4. Photoshop Flash Axure Illustrator Catalyst MS Office InDesign Blend XML HTML5 Processing Objective C CSS3 Visio Java Javascript Omnigraffle …? typography UI design grid systems user research information prototyping architecture usability testinga quick survey of job ads
• 5. Photoshop Flash Axure Illustrator Catalyst MS Office InDesign Blend XML d’oh. HTML5 Processing Objective C CSS3 Visio Java Javascript Omnigraffle …? typography UI design grid systems user research information prototyping architecture usability testinga quick survey of job ads
• 6. what skills dotoday’s designers lack?
• 7. strongcore skills
• 8. “…I prefer to have the cool as the topping for a carefully planned design.” —Wendy Quesinberry, Principal & Creative Director, Quesinberry and Associates01 02 03 04 ideation & planning
• 9. “Technology and tools should not get in the way of your ideas. The second this happens, you’re screwed.”—David Conrad, Studio Manager, Design Commission01 02 03 04 sketching ideas
• 10. “Sharing your thoughts isn’t a risk, it’s an asset… It just doesn’t feel like work when you’re doing it right.” —Duane King, Principal, BBDK and founder of Thinking for a Living01 02 03 04 active collaboration
• 11. “There is nothing like the impossible and the unfair to stretch your talents.”—Scott Berkun, author of The Myths of Innovation and Making Things Happen01 02 03 04 resilience
• 12. every designer needs strong core skills
• 13. you can only gain them bydoing projects
• 14. strengthenyour core skills and learn new ones
• 15. 7 flavorsof extremelychallenging design problems
• 16. I’m Feeling Really,Really Lucky
• 17. David Sherwin / Challenge: I’m Feeling Really, Really Lucky / time limit: 60 min
• 18. Robot ArmyMail-Order Kit
• 19. Grace Cheong / Challenge: Robot Army Mail-Order Kit / time limit: 60 min
• 20. Grace Cheong / Challenge: Robot Army Mail-Order Kit / time limit: 60 min
• 21. Thinking Outsidethe Wrist
• 22. Mark Notermann / Challenge: Thinking Outside the Wrist / time limit: 120 min
• 23. Katharine Widdows / Challenge: Thinking Outside the Wrist / time limit: 120 min
• 24. TechnoYoga
• 25. David Sherwin / Challenge: TechnoYoga / time limit: 120 min
• 26. What Do I Know?
• 27. + = ?
• 28. add new thinking toolsto your arsenal
• 29. 20 MINS 40 MINS 60 MINS 80 MINS 100 MINS 120 MINS FINAL CLEAN SKETCHES REFINED VISUAL WIRE- DESIGN EVALUATE FRAMES THINKING DETERMINE ROUGH APP WIRE- EVALUATE CONTENT FRAMES BRAIN- STORM EVALUATEBIG IDEAS timeboxing
• 30. brainstorming methods
• 31. brainstorming methodsDonnie Dinch, Meg Doyle, Claire Kohler, Mark Notermann / Challenge: Touch Screen of Deaf Rock / time limit: 60 min
• 32. what thechallengesteach you:
• 33. you’ll never have enough timeon any project…so get used to it
• 34. failure is a necessarycomponentof creativity
• 35. rote repetitionrarely leads to deep design intuition
• 36. underconstraints, creativity thrives
• 37. get 10 free bonuschallenges here:scr.ib/CWBonus
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