Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Be Good At Lots of Things
Search
Lynn Fisher
October 11, 2015
Design
7
1.2k
Be Good At Lots of Things
A talk from Phoenix Design Week 2015.
Lynn Fisher
October 11, 2015
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Lynn Fisher
See All by Lynn Fisher
Art, The Web, and Tiny UX
lynnandtonic
298
20k
A Different Kind of UX
lynnandtonic
9
1.2k
Illustration with CSS
lynnandtonic
9
3.8k
I’ll Be Awesome At Lots of Things, Thank You Very Much
lynnandtonic
4
380
Illustrating With Heart
lynnandtonic
3
480
Developers as Intentional Designers
lynnandtonic
1
920
Other Decks in Design
See All in Design
A brief & incomplete history of UX Design for the World Wide Web: 1989–2019
jct
1
150
無自覚なランクとその影響を紐解くワークショップ / Unpacking Unconscious Privilege Workshop
spring_aki
3
130
デザイナーのお仕事(UI/UX GRAPHIC GROUP)
mirrativ
0
180
Flow, Not Stock 知識触媒としてのIA
5kaichi
0
210
(第1回) アーキテクト・テックリード育成講座
masakaya
0
190
一人ひとりのポテンシャルを活かしたナレッジマネジメントとは?
atsushihomma
1
370
An Early Spring | Storyboard | Scenes 1-18
giofortuna_story
0
120
20241204_UI/UXデザイナーLT会 - vol.10_DMM
motokoishida
0
300
Findy - デザイナー向け会社紹介 / Hiring Findy's Designers
findyinc
7
72k
LayerX DesignersDeck
layerx
PRO
0
5k
AIネイティブな時代におけるUXデザインの在り方とは
kuni29
0
1.3k
Masked shaman-Storyboard 2025
ashley0521
0
210
Featured
See All Featured
Gamification - CAS2011
davidbonilla
80
5.2k
Mobile First: as difficult as doing things right
swwweet
223
9.5k
Navigating Team Friction
lara
183
15k
Documentation Writing (for coders)
carmenintech
69
4.7k
Building Better People: How to give real-time feedback that sticks.
wjessup
367
19k
The Invisible Side of Design
smashingmag
299
50k
Creating an realtime collaboration tool: Agile Flush - .NET Oxford
marcduiker
28
2k
We Have a Design System, Now What?
morganepeng
51
7.5k
Templates, Plugins, & Blocks: Oh My! Creating the theme that thinks of everything
marktimemedia
30
2.3k
The Cult of Friendly URLs
andyhume
78
6.3k
Site-Speed That Sticks
csswizardry
4
440
The Art of Delivering Value - GDevCon NA Keynote
reverentgeek
11
1.4k
Transcript
HELLO! Lynn Fisher @lynnandtonic
FOCUS
SPECIALIZE
BE GOOD AT ONE THING
None
None
None
INTERMEDIA
INTERMEDIA
None
None
None
CREATE ART IN THE SPACE WHERE DISCIPLINES OVERLAP
TRY
LEARN
BE GOOD AT LOTS OF THINGS
IS IT POSSIBLE?
None
SPECIALIZATION IS A GOOD THING
None
WHERE HAS OUR CURIOSITY GONE?
None
SPOILER ALERT
None
None
SPOILER OVER
“You’ll never be as good as someone who spends all
their time on it.”
YOU DON’T KNOW ME
THAT’S OK.
“You don’t have to become a pro to get value
from learning something.” PHILIP ROBERTS
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING?
None
None
EVERY PROJECT IN EVERY INDUSTRY REQUIRES WORK OF VARYING DIFFICULTY
EVERY PROJECT IN EVERY INDUSTRY REQUIRES WORK OF VARYING DIFFICULTY
“If there’s anything worse than a web designer who doesn’t
know how to code, it’s a web designer who codes poorly!”
“Developers need designers, not bug making machines.”
“I’m not a developer and I wouldn’t want my code
in production.”
WTF?!
“Our culture doesn’t support beginners.”
“I’m a bad teacher.”
“Do you only hire senior developers?”
CODE DOESN’T CARE WHO WROTE IT
WHAT ARE YOU?
“A title has no business attempting to capture the seemingly
infinite ways by which individuals evolve.” RANDS
BEYOND CATEGORY
None
None
None
YOU ARE NOT A PIE
“Don’t dilute someone’s skill set by trying to expand it,
play to the strengths of your team”
None
None
None
None
None
None
THAT’S OK.
None
None
None
None
CREATE ART IN THE SPACE WHERE COMMUNITIES OVERLAP
None
None
LITERALLY EVERYTHING IS ABOUT PEOPLE
BRING YOUR WHOLE SELF TO WORK
BRING YOUR WHOLE SELF TO WORK
“Do or do not. There is no try.” YODA
None
TRYING IS VALID AND VALUABLE
IT REMINDS US WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE A
BEGINNER
WE MAY FAIL
“You’re not a real ______ unless you ____________” SOME JERK,
PROBABLY NOUN ARBITRARY CONDITION
None
WE DEFINE WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE ARE GOOD
AT
WE DECIDE WHAT MATTERS
“Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very
silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” HENRY VAN DYKE
PEOPLE ARE CAPABLE OF SO MUCH
TRY
LEARN
BE GOOD AT LOTS OF THINGS
THANK YOU Lynn Fisher @lynnandtonic