presented by David Schimmel, founder of And Partners (original description)
Find your passion
- people work with you because of you
- passion is magnetic
- make sure your passion is transparent
Tag Archives: how
2008 How Design Conference Notes: Developing Your Leadership and Strategic Capabilities
presented by Jeni Herberger, co-founder of Big Fish Creative Staffing
- How do you solve your client’s business problem?
- Can you articulate how your work helped a client meet key goals?
- Can you present yourself as a strategic thinker?
2008 How Design Conference Notes: Designer's Guide to Research
presented by Jenn and Ken Visocky O’Grady, founders of Enspace Design and authors of A Designer’s Research Manual. (original description)
Design Research
- Qualitative and quantitative
- Primary and secondary sources
- Formative: at the beginning of a project to help define the problem
- Summative: at the end of a project to determine outcome strategies
2008 How Design Conference Notes: Financial planning for solo designers
presented by Shel Perkins, author of Talent is Not Enough: Business Secrets for Designers. (original description)
- you need to have adequate startup capital to cover the first two years
- most start with savings and personal loans
- most only last about three years
- essential to work with a CPA
- because you’re self-employed, you need to make quarterly tax pre-payments
2008 How Design Conference Notes: A Designed Life
presented by Joe Duffy, Duffy & Partners. (original description)
- Design permeates our lives now. We’ve moved from:
- Agrarian age = Grow It
- Industrial age = Build It
- Information age = Tell It
- Design age = BE IT
- Design is only interesting relative to how people live their lives.