70 life lessons for designers :: creative south 2017
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Life Lessons for Designers70brought to you by Marc & Joel from Design Inc.
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Marc JoelFounder, CEO | @hemeon Head of Design | @_bklmn
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Design Inc. helps designers find work
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Craft1
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Sketch with big markers
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Show more than images in your portfolio
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Don’t worry about your title
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Its okay to design for free
I do it too
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Curiosity > Tools
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If your design is what you imagined…it’s probably wrong
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No 1 designs anything
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If you do something,something will happen
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Enjoy the journey. Shipping is a marathon.
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Quality is your problem
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Beautiful because you care
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Icons with text are easier to understand than icons alone
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Save time, use patterns
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Design in black and white and add color later
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Pixel perfect design is dead
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Use real content not lorum ipsum
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Try it in German
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You are not Aaron Draplin. find your own Futura Bold
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Design is not Art
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Try it in Russian
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Use what you make
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Say people, not users
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Punch above your weight class
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Design one for the stakeholder and one for you
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Done is better than perfect
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Cocoapotrace
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Life2
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Get a hobby kids
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Saying NO is a strength
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Distraction is the enemy
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I R L
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Spend time like money
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Comparison kills
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Don’t be defined by your work
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Always talk to the person next to you
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8 Work - 8 Rest - 8 You
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Sharing is caring
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Sidework leads = next job
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Share your contact info
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Effort trumps talent
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Resentment causes burnout
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Be impeccable with your word
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Give Props
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Show up
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Stop saying sorry
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Stop using this, it, that
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Stop using “you know” HT @saturday
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Stop saying Um, I think, I feel and So
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Biz3
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Contribute more, take less
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Yes & …
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Do what you say.
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Stop saying IMO
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Design like a Scientist
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Embrace constraints
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Success = 80% Sell, 20% Design
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Empathy > Apathy
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Your Bias is Bullsh!t
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If it's not a "Hell Yes”, its a no.
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15 minute meetings
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Everyone's job is hard
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Market rate = the average of your 3 friends
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Ideas are cheap
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Write your story
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Invoice every two weeks
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Say thank you, how else can I help?
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Follow up
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One big thing each day
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Drink water
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Marc Joel
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