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

By Craig Burgess

Currently on Season 3.

Season 3 - Episode 157 - Present

Season 3 is all about Craig talking into a mic about topics loosely connected to design. They're raw, direct, and live episodes where Craig jus... more

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August 11, 2017 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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August 10, 2017 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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August 08, 2017 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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August 07, 2017 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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August 06, 2017 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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August 06, 2017 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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August 05, 2017 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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August 03, 2017 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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August 03, 2017 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.
BREAK
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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August 02, 2017 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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