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The Designer’s Guide to Being Essential

Simon Collison
September 14, 2015
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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.

Simon Collison

September 14, 2015
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  1. BEING ESSENTIAL
    Simon Collison | @colly
    The Designer’s Guide to

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  3. WHO WE ARE

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  4. ABOUT US

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  5. ABOUT BEING HUMAN

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  27. Trousers slide

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  29. RECONNECTING

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  37. DISCONNECTING

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  38. DISCONNECTING

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  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

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  45. RECONNECTING

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  46. HUMANS. INDIVIDUALS.

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  47. AM I A BETTER DESIGNER?

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  48. AM I A BETTER DESIGNER?

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  49. MY LIFE IS MODULAR

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  50. I move things around
    until they look right.
    Milton Glaser

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  51. I move things around
    until they look right.
    Milton Glaser

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  52. I move things around
    until they look right.
    Milton Glaser

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  53. WHEN I WAS A KID…

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  54. WHEN I WAS A KID…

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  55. THIS IS WHO WE ARE

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  56. THE DEATH
    OF WEB DESIGN

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  57. THE DEATH
    OF WEB DESIGN

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  58. THE DEATH
    OF WEB DESIGN

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  62. DESIGN EVOLVES

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  63. MACHINES

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  64. [A designer is]
    a planner with an aesthetic sense.
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  65. EMPATHY

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  66. How will you prove you’re be er
    than a machine?
    Travis Gertz
    h ps://louderthanten.com/articles/story/design-machines

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  67. TOOLS

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  68. SHOULD WE CODE?

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  69. HTML is not code. It's markup.
    Just like typese ing. Which is firmly
    in the realm of designers.
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  70. HTML is not code. It's markup.
    Just like typese ing. Which is firmly
    in the realm of designers.
    Mark Boulton

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  71. http://tools.subtraction.com

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  72. BRAINS.
    IDEAS.
    REALISATION.

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  73. BRAINS.
    IDEAS.
    REALISATION.

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  74. BRAINS.
    IDEAS.
    REALISATION.

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  75. BRAINS.
    IDEAS.
    REALISATION.

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  76. BRAINS.
    IDEAS.
    REALISATION.

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  77. MY TEAM

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  78. MY TEAM

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  79. DELIVERABLES

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  80. http://smacss.com

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  81. http://daverupert.com/2013/04/responsive-deliverables

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  82. http://filamentgroup.com/lab/grade_components/

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  83. http://pattern-lab.info/

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  84. LANGUAGE

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  85. LANGUAGE

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  86. Find problems and design responses.
    Not answers, not solutions.
    Responses.

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  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

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  88. FLEXIBILITY

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  89. KEEP LEARNING

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  90. @colly
    THANK YOU

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