Designers have to stay creative, it’s a sad fact of life. Burning Man is the perfect place to recharge safely away from daily grind. At Burning Man, you’ll spend a week in the desert taking drugs and looking at art made by the unpaid side of the creative community and stealing their ideas. In addition [...]
Oftentimes you cannot rely on relevant, young designers to be cool for you, you have to go one step further and take it to school. Teaching allows you to remain socially dominant, gain resume padding while still sucking the lifeforce from designers who are younger than you.
Teaching is fun!
jakob nielsen, bill mogridge, clay shirky, IxDA, IDSA, RISD
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in order to design properly, you have to believe in the concept by living it.
Get as low as possible.
1) Simply squat, kneel, sit, lay on the ground. Anything to get lower than the person you are asking something of.
This makes them feel in control even though they arn’t.
2) Also try using a baby voice or touching them. If you’re a woman, use “the look”.
3) get your way.
The Kool-Aid is what you drink in order to close down your perception that everything is fucked. In order to get anything done you have to focus on the task at hand and Kool-Aid helps you put out of your mind that this project is futile anyway.
Mixing Kool-Aid destroys the effects of both drinks and [...]
The best producers/program managers keep everything organized and working without being dicks about it. They don’t have to make anything or even come up with good ideas, they just have to keep it moving along and working.
Programmers are a necessary evil but sometimes your designs require them.
1) do not try to relate with the developer, this will turn into a “tech-off” and you will surely lose.
2) do not make concept fit their “realities” of engineering.
3) throw in a passive-aggressive quip here and there about how nerdy is it to be a [...]
Play spouse card for:
after work drinks
celebrating the end of a failed project
meeting a manager who will just complain to you about the state of things
meeting a subordinate who you know will just complain to you about the state of things
design-related talks, round tables and industry circle jerks
Do not play spouse card for:
design-related after hour field [...]