AADA - Raw, direct and live chats about design and creativity

AADA - Raw, direct and live chats about design and creativity

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  • 208 - The Multidisciplinary Designer
    Today I discuss why being a jack-of-all-trades isn't a bad thing.
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    I covered this a bit way back in #111 - Be Good At Lots Of Things
    Today I want to talk about me, or at least my approach to design
    The specialist designer
    The jack-of-all-trades designer
    The “designer" - The all round good designer 
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    11 min
  • 207 - My Favourite Kind Of Design - Part 3
    I talk about my favourite kind of design again, for the third time.
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    I’ve done this kind of episode twice before:
    #142 - Old Design and Alan Fletcher
    #122 - Graphic Design
    Today I’m back for part 3.
    I love talking about my favourite kind of design
    Wit in design
    Design with Easter Eggs
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    12 min
  • 206 - My First Design Job
    I talk about my first design job. Awww.
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    I wrote an answer on Quora recently that I thought would also make a good podcast episode.
    I answered the question: What was your first graphic designer job like?
    I randomly decided to apply for this job and never expected to get it.
    I struggled to deal with criticism and I used to get too attached
    I wasn’t capable of understanding how to improve things
    I wasn’t a very good designer
    I was the only designer in the company
    I had to learn everything and do everything myself
    It was hard.
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    11 min
  • 205 - Designing For The Coffee Queue
    What does it mean to design a website for the coffee queue?
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    In episode 204, I touched on the importance of mobile
    I said a phrase that really caught my thinking, and I wanted to consider it more in-depth
    The coffee queue is just an analogy really to help you consider how people use websites in reality. People use their phones whilst:
    Killing time waiting for a friend
    Stood waiting for the traffic lights to change (in cars and outside of cars) 
    Waking up on a morning
    Going to bed on a night
    Waiting for an appointment 
    Bored at the dinner table
    Generally we use it as an all encompassing time waster 
    The idea of designing a website for the coffee queue
    The user isn’t fully engaged
    They want the content as quick as possible
    They’ll be on a mobile phone
    They’ll likely have a poor internet connection
    They want to find something out
    They want to be engaged, intrigued, interested, surprised
    They won’t do anything complicated, and likely will forget to complete anything that is
    It’s a powerful way of thinking about the next website you’re involved in.
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    8 min
  • 204 - Why mobile is now the most important thing to consider when designing nearly anything
    Why mobile is SO important when you're designing things, or commissioning new design work.
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    What I mean by mobile 
    The Consumption age
    The mobile brain and Short attention spans 
    Is somebody viewing your thing with intent or are they stood in a queue waiting for a coffee? 
    Chunking content 
    How to design for mobile and the mobile brain 
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    8 min
  • 203 - Up front work to make the day-to-day easier
    I talk about scheduling and batching things to make things more efficient.
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    I've fallen out of love with schedules recently, as I discussed in episode 186 about planning my podcast 
    I wanted my podcast to feel more spontaneous, but I'd estimate it's making my podcast twice as difficult 
    Wherever possible, you should separate the ideas and thinking tasks from the production tasks. 
    If you plan upfront then produce later, you'll be faster at both tasks 
    Using trello to plan my personal content schedule
    All this stuff can be applied to anybody needs to write regular content 
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    8 min
  • 202 - The most important things every person needs to know when providing design feedback
    Today I'm talking about design feedback.
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    It's not about you and what shade of pink you like
    Design is hard, and don't forget that fact
    Be diplomatic with your opinions
    But also, be honest with your opinions
    If the designs match the brief, the job is a success
    You don't need to see multiple options of everything, trust your designer
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    9 min
  • 201 - Lessons from learning how to get up early (again)
    Here's the final lessons I've learned from getting up early for two weeks.
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    Yesterday, I got the episode numbers wrong. Tomorrow, I’ll talk about design. I promise.
    My last year of late mornings.
    There’s no such thing as a morning person or a night owl (sort of).
    You can force yourself to get up at any time you choose.
    Listen to your body.
    Getting up early does feel more productive, but is it?
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    10 min
  • 200 - How easy it can be to set up an online business
    It's stupidly easy to set up an online business.
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    P.S. I semi-scripted today's episode: here's the script.
    When you’re stuck in a rut
    It’s easier to look and see that the grass is greener on the other side
    Today, I’m here to tell you that it is
    And I’m here to show you how easy
    How unbelievably, ridiculously easy it is
    To set up an online business
    Today, right now.
    Seriously, you’re not going to believe how easy this is.
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    I don’t care how much you know right now
    Even if the only thing you can do is open your email
    Within a couple of hours, you could make a website
    If I look back 15 years ago to when I started this website stuff
    You used to have to make them yourself
    Well, sort of. I made my first website in something called Dreamweaver
    Which was really just an upgraded FrontPage
    And if you remember that, you’re an old sad geek like me.
    Back then, websites would take a couple of hours just to make something basic
    Now, you can go to something like WordPress.com
    Or squarespace
    Or Wix, or a million other things like that, and have a website online in 20 minutes
    No kidding, no exergerating. I could teach my dad to do this stuff.
    I could teach my dad to make a website in 20 minutes.
    And with a website, comes a business.
    Or at least, a potential business.
    There’s loads of ways to setup on online business.
    You’ve got the obvious ones like e-commerce
    Selling a product online, then shipping it and stuff like that
    Then you’ve got less obvious ones
    Like being an online personal assistant for people
    Which are sometimes called virtual assistants
    And then there’s things like SEO consultants
    Business coaching
    Social media
    And stuff like I do, selling websites
    We started Genius Division with nothing more than a couple of computers and desks
    And a website, obviously
    From that website we sold our services
    But we never really directly sold from the internet as such
    We sold through contacts we already knew and the network we’d built up
    But we did, and still do, sell websites
    And in some way, ours is an online business
    As I’ve been banging on all week, it pains me so much to see people not realising this
    Not realising the potential of the internet, and all the crazy different businesses you can setup on it SO EASILY
    If there’s any takeaway from this week of the power of the internet episodes its simply this
    The internet is massive
    And you could be making money from it as well
    If you’re stuck in a job you hate or you want to change
    I’ve got thousands of people who I could show you who make money purely through the internet
    At all levels, from making a couple of quid a month through to making millions
    The internet is really damn powerful
    And I hope you can realise that in some small way, and start to take advantage of it too
    I’ve linked to an article in today’s show notes that talks about online business ideas.
    It’s here http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4572-online-business-ideas.html
    There’s all sorts of crazy stuff in there
    And I hope you find something that might suit you.
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    8 min
  • 199 - From The Industrial Revolution to The Consumption Regression
    Today I talk about our period of making things, to now. The consumption age.
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    From about 1760 onwards, lots of people discovered the power of machinery.
    People realised that hand production wasn’t as effective as machines doing the work.
    The textiles industry realised this the most.
    This was a huge turning point in our modern history, especially in Britain.
    Financial growth beyond all expectations began.
    Standards of living continued to grow
    The period of Industrialisation began
    Then, something similar happened in the 90s.
    The internet came along, and it started to get more commercialised.
    Savvy people realised the power of the internet, the dotcom crash came and went, and now we’ve settled in.
    Now, the internet is here to stay
    And it’s brought about an age of consumption
    YouTube, Netflix, Podcasts, Websites, Blogs, Training courses
    Everything is done on the internet
    But nobody is making enough on the internet
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    8 min

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