Curing Design Complacency

Have you ever had a dream project that slowly evolved into a state of mediocracy by the time it launched?

We may have an epidemic on our hands: complacency. This disease is often triggered by short timelines, unset expectations, corporate red tape, lack of research, budget and sometimes motivation.

Fortunately, there is a cure! Together, we will focus on how to keep pushing past the status quo to create something in which we can all be proud.

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1. Complacency Curing Design
2. 0 20 40 60 80 100 Time Excitement
3. 0 20 40 60 80 100 Time Excitement
4. a feeling of being satisfied with how things are and not wanting to try to make them better complacency noun | com·pla·cen·cy | \kəm-ˈplā-sən(t)-sē\
5. Common Causes Design Complacency
6. Douglas Adams I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. ‘ ‘ I love deadlines.
7. Excited to start working on this project!
8. 3 additional Wait, projects are kicking off?
9. How many revisions? In Photoshop? In all screen sizes?
10. Are these within our current scope?
11. Internet
 Explorer 8? Did you just say
12. Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping!
13. 8 new meeting requests?
14. Bunch of other slides
15. Optimize Your Workflow
16. Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping! Constant Interruptions Ping! Ping!
17. Better Meetings
18. Prioritize Tasks
19. Cost of Perfection
20. Purposeful Constraints … build and test nearly any idea in just 40 hours. ‘ ‘
21. Politics Workplace
23. People Ask The Right
25. Work Sell Your
26. Work Sell Your
27. Motivation Lacking
28. Attend Events
29. Beyond Design
30. Data-informed
31. Data-informed over v
32. Henry Ford ‘ ‘ If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses
33. Henry Ford ‘ ‘ If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses
34. Rule 3-Click
35. Fold Above the
36. KLPA (Joshua Kulpa) Andy Clarke, “Counting Stars: Creativity over Predictability” ‘ ‘ I fear that we're creating a web the full of safe designs because we’re driven by 
 the need in some of us for predictability, reliability and for repeatability …
37. Failure Embracing
39. Magic Link
40. Easy Payments
41. Easier Payments
42. Fun Clever and
43. Wilson Miner, “When We Build” ‘ ‘ We’re actually in the process of building an environment where we’ll spend most of our time for the rest of our lives …
44. Design can Influence Elections
45. Design Can Change The World
46. Stacy Kvernmo Thank you! @StacyKvernmo