The Designer’s Guide to Being Essential

"I move things around until they look right,” confessed veteran designer Milton Glaser. This is delightfully unpretentious — and Simon’s favourite quote — yet it’s not quite so easy for today’s digital designer. He or she must not only make things look right, but also embrace new methodologies, new tools, be essential to a team, be mindful of limitations, and wrestle with the suggestion that websites are all but redundant. As this practical argument will explain, there’s nothing for any of us to worry about, so long as every thing — and every one — is a module.

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1. BEING ESSENTIAL Simon Collison | @colly The Designer’s Guide to
3. WHO WE ARE
4. ABOUT US
5. ABOUT BEING HUMAN
27. Trousers slide
29. RECONNECTING
37. DISCONNECTING
38. DISCONNECTING
44. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. John Muir
45. RECONNECTING
46. HUMANS. INDIVIDUALS.
47. AM I A BETTER DESIGNER?
48. AM I A BETTER DESIGNER?
49. MY LIFE IS MODULAR
50. I move things around until they look right. Milton Glaser
51. I move things around until they look right. Milton Glaser
52. I move things around until they look right. Milton Glaser
53. WHEN I WAS A KID…
54. WHEN I WAS A KID…
55. THIS IS WHO WE ARE
56. THE DEATH OF WEB DESIGN
57. THE DEATH OF WEB DESIGN
58. THE DEATH OF WEB DESIGN
62. DESIGN EVOLVES
63. MACHINES
64. [A designer is] a planner with an aesthetic sense. Bruno Munari
65. EMPATHY
66. How will you prove you’re be er than a machine? Travis Gertz h ps://louderthanten.com/articles/story/design-machines
67. TOOLS
68. SHOULD WE CODE?
69. HTML is not code. It's markup. Just like typese ing. Which is firmly in the realm of designers. Mark Boulton
70. HTML is not code. It's markup. Just like typese ing. Which is firmly in the realm of designers. Mark Boulton
71. http://tools.subtraction.com
72. BRAINS. IDEAS. REALISATION.
73. BRAINS. IDEAS. REALISATION.
74. BRAINS. IDEAS. REALISATION.
75. BRAINS. IDEAS. REALISATION.
76. BRAINS. IDEAS. REALISATION.
77. MY TEAM
78. MY TEAM
79. DELIVERABLES
80. http://smacss.com
81. http://daverupert.com/2013/04/responsive-deliverables
82. http://filamentgroup.com/lab/grade_components/
83. http://pattern-lab.info/
84. LANGUAGE
85. LANGUAGE
86. Find problems and design responses. Not answers, not solutions. Responses.
87. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Jack Torrance
88. FLEXIBILITY
89. KEEP LEARNING
90. @colly THANK YOU