Designers with Biceps

You've come from a design background, yet look longingly at the prospect of coding the web projects you dream up.

There's no reason to keep wishing. We'll cover a few simple steps to becoming a designer who has the development muscles to actually build stuff. Stop relying on others to do the work that you'd love to be doing yourself.

We'll talk about the most important technologies to learn, practical ways to approach learning them, and how designers can make amazing developers.

Transcript

1. HEY!
2. BICEPS
3. NOT
4. IS
5. INTERNET?
6. 1. Complicated – built by an elite group? 2. Merely functional - I can't exercise creativity and design? 3. It's too hard to break in – noisy and overrun?
7. DESIGN
12. incomplete
13. MEDIUM
14. CODE
15. "A designer who does not write markup and css is not designing for the web, but drawing pictures." Andy Rutledge
16. LIBERATION
17. ` "Happiest when exploring the intersection between design and development, I can now take a website from visual concept right through to production-ready code. I can move between graphics application and browser at will, making changes late into production. e whole process feels like a two-way conversation between designer and developer, uid and eeting, yet set entirely within my own mind." -Paul Robert Lloyd, on the Pastry Box
18. CREATIVITY
19. POSSIBILITY
20. FEAR
21. “Challenge yourself. Humble yourself. Get over yourself. Whatever you do, make sure it's well outside your comfort zone. You'll learn and grow and become better, stronger, and a lot more self-assured...” -Jeff Haden, "Your Most Important Investment" on Inc Magazine
22. Ryann
23. DON’T
24. HYBRID
25. “Being a great designer and a great developer is not an impossibility. With enough time and effort, you can become a designer or developer or both, no forehead horn required.” Diogenes Brito, On Being A Designer And A Developer: Not Quite Unicorn Rare
26. ME
27. how
28. SMALL
29. SHOULDERS
30. UGLY
31. THINK
33. FRIENDS
34. neil.re/peoples
35. WHAT
36. “e horizontal stroke of the 'T' is the disposition for collaboration across disciplines.” Tim Brown, Ideo
37. “e vertical stroke of the 'T' is a depth of skill that allows them to contribute to the creative process.” Tim Brown, Ideo
38. * A good text editor (Sublime Text) * UI Design * HTML (HTML 5) * CSS (CSS3) * JavaScript and jQuery
39. * A Book Apart books * CodeSchool.com * Codecademy.com
40. SOMETHING
41. http://konigi.com/notebook/wisdom-dog
42. REAL
43. neil.re/side-projects
44. GO!
45. "Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it." e Done Manifesto
46. @NEILRENICKER neil.re/biceps