notes from Aarron Walter’s talk “Idea to Interface” at AEA2011SF
execution vs creative thinking
when you stop thinking creatively, it’s bad for you, your boss, the business
how to promote creative thinking:
- independent thinking
- start an independent project
get in the habit of having new ideas
1,000 things on a shelf. (building a toolbox)
how did you go from where you’ve been to where you’re going?
i’m not the best, but i’m as good as the next guy
hiero – king of syracuse
ideate
incubate
don’t show the judge…. don’t talk about half-baked ideas, bc you’re introducing the judge into the creative process
design (“make things, collect things, break things, connect things”)
- who are you designing for? wireframes
- what are you solving?
- sketchboarding. (put your ideas where people can see them, more collaboration) (video)
fork (create different versions)
evaluate
- prototyping http://keynotekungfu.com http://gomockingbird.com/ http://icanhazjs.com/ http://patterntap.com/
- http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns
- Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell
- https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/
- http://flowplayer.org/tools/
- design persona
“scratch an itch”
weekend hacker
make an idea visible – clarity, confidence, boss, employee, indie, permission
resources:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/personality-in-design/
http://www.abookapart.com/products/designing-for-emotion
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