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Product Design Super Cut

Product Design Super Cut

The bits of my talks people seem to like the most, smashed into one, supercut style, for Product Tank NYC.

Hannah Donovan

June 24, 2015
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  1. Hi! I’m Han! I’m a digital product designer. I love

    making things that foster self expression and create culture.
  2. Hi! I’m Han! I’m a digital product designer. I love

    making things that foster self expression and create culture.
  3. Hi! I’m Han! I’m a digital product designer. I love

    making things that foster self expression and create culture.
  4. Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You

    are not responsible for that, it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters. you must cherish this gift. Do not demean or waste what you have been given. Work – work constantly and nourish it. – Pablo Casals, “Joys And Sorrows”
  5. What do you want? Why do you want it? First

    ask This is ‘the brief’ (questions you ask together with your client, users, colleagues) – whether you’re working for yourself or someone else.
  6. What do you want? Why do you want it? First

    ask This is ‘the brief’ (questions you ask together with your client, users, colleagues) – whether you’re working for yourself or someone else. How to do it? Then decide This is for you and your colleagues to choose. This is not for your users or clients to decide.
  7. •Happens in the same room •Happens in real-time •You need

    friends •Works best with 1-10 people •You need a record player •You need records •You need to choose at the pace of a song (3 min) •You have to pick from someone’s collection •You can only share one thing at a time Records & friends: constraints
  8. Because you can only post one song at a time,

    and every one of those songs is someone’s favorite right now, the network effect is all hits no filler.
  9. Humans are human because they have a perspective: they care

    about things. One might call it our ability to give a damn. And it is this quality that allows us to determine what matters and where we stand. A computer can’t do that. – Christian Madsbjerg & Mikkel B. Rasmussen on Hubert Dreyfus in “The Moment of Clarity”
  10. Humans are human because they have a perspective: they care

    about things. One might call it our ability to give a damn. And it is this quality that allows us to determine what matters and where we stand. A computer can’t do that. – Christian Madsbjerg & Mikkel B. Rasmussen on Hubert Dreyfus in “The Moment of Clarity” Computers can’t give a damn.
  11. Photo by Timo Arnall Some people (they are wrong) say

    design is about solving problems. Obviously designers do solve problems, but then so do dentists. Design is about cultural invention. 
 
 – Jack Schulze