What Is It You Do, Exactly?

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Design Lead UX Designer UI Designer Product Designer Graphic Designer Visual Designer Art Director Junior Art Director Design Evangelist Web Designer Front-end Engineer Interaction Designer Communication Designer Production Designer UX Producer UX Architect

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UI/UX Ninja

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Every time a client tells me to “blue sky” something, or that they don’t want to “stiﬂe my creativity”, I have to spend time undoing the myth of the magical creative. MIK E M ON TEI R O, “D ESI GN I S A J O B ”

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Our aim is to design and build something that will allow users to do whatever it is that they need to do, then get out of their way. It’s not as fancy as I think we sometimes make it out to be—we’re not artists or poets. We just make websites. That’s my go-to response when people ask me what I do for a living: “I make websites.” I’m not a something-engineer or a whatever-architect, and I’m sure as hell no “rockstar” or “ninja.” I make websites. I’m alright with that; you should be too. MA T MA RQ UI S , TH E PA STRY B O X PR O J E C T

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1 Side Projects

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Change of Pace Freedom ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED! Sanity

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Start Small Inside Your Organization Local, Small Business/Orgs

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by starting a side project, you’re contributing to something potentially greater than normal circumstances would allow. RE LAT ED: S UC C ESS/ F A IL U R E IS 1 0 0% O N Y O U

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The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life. JE SS I CA H I SCH E

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2 So Skills

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So Skill: any skill that’s not the actual cra of design, but contributes to becoming a well-rounded designer

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Facilitation Leadership Critical Listening Empathy

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Writing Small: Company Blog Personal Blog Local Publications Large: Tuts+ Smashing Magazine .net Magazine

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Speaking Small: Internal Meeting Client Meeting Local Meetup Large: Submissions for Conferences

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the easiest thing you can do to help form so skills is to simply stay current L EA RN > SHA RE > MA K E > SH AR E > R E P E AT

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3 Support

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Support Side Projects Easy. Talk to the people in this room.

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Support Writing Read. Share, Like, Comment, Retweet, Repin, Repost

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Support Speaking A end. Tweet, Give Feedback, Document, Apply

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Support Staying Current Talk. Start a Podcast, Create a Meetup This.

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What’s next for Sync?

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SyracuseSync PRINT DESIGN RWD BACK-END DEVELOPMENT

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