Notes from the edge

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1. NOTES FROM THE EDGE SIMON COLLISON

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5. THE DOING 1

6. What do you think you’ll be doing in five years?

   Interview question
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8. ARE YOU IN YOUR WORK?

9. It took me until my 40s to realize: There’s no

   destination. There’s no ge ing anywhere. There’s just the going. Pa on Oswalt

10. Not necessarily slowing down, but rather just opting out of

    speed. Frank Chimero

11. SERENDIPITY

12. STRENGTHS & VALUES 2

13. To progress and to create work of substance or even

    greatness, we each must start by knowing our values, our strengths, and the level of expertise we seek Strengths and values

14. I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed

    once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. Thomas Edison

15. OUR STRENGTHS FIND US

16. designer developer strategist writer educator manager web designer 100%

17. designer developer strategist writer educator manager web designer 100%

18. LEARNING 3

19. I’m self-actualised, without the stamp of approval from any guild,

    curriculum authority, or academic institution. I’m web taught. Colleague taught. Empirically taught. Jon Tan

20. The sad, beautiful fact that we’re all going to miss

    almost everything Linda Holmes

21. ORBITAL LEARNING

22. FOCUS

23. CRAFT 4

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25. Cra smanship is a basic human impulse: the desire to

    do a job well for its own sake Richard Senne
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27. Discovery through doing: honing skills over a significant period of

    time, with substantial commitment. Our cra

28. TOOLS 5

29. Tools are the scaffold for what we produce, the enablers.

    They help us bring our ideas to fruition. Our tools
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31. The tool doesn’t make the cra sman. Choosing the right

    tool for the right purpose is a technical and personal choice. Oliver Reichenstein

32. INQUIRY 6

33. Inquiring beyond the “necessary” to explore other areas, look at

    things differently, and bring these findings back into our work. Creative inquiry
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35. A rich alphabet of components such as line and point,

    structure, color, shapes, rhythm, and movement, which we use to shape our messages Visual grammar
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38. A puzzle is be er than an answer Milton Glaser

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40. 7 OUR UNIQUE WEB

41. The screen brings with it different kinds of challenges for

    visual design, some of which occur exclusively in interactive media. Pa erns & interactions
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46. http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/browser-ball/

47. http://wallswaps.com/

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49. SYSTEMS 8

50. We don’t design web pages. We design systems. Systems

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55. http://gregorywood.co.uk/ http://jasonsantamaria.com/

56. VOCABULARY 9

57. The terms responsive and adaptive are distinct yet related, and

    have evolved naturally from outdated web-based layout terminology Responsive web design
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60. OUR MOTIVATION 10

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

    The designer
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65. THANKS @colly