The Busy Creator Podcast with Prescott Perez-Fox

The Busy Creator 16 w/guest Marie Poulin

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 Marie Poulin (@MariePoulin) is a Digital Strategist and Web Designer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Following her early work in a small Toronto-based studio, Marie set out on her own and established a solo web design practice before making a more recent transition to strategy. Marie has taken on more self-initiated projects, launchingDigital Strategy School, powered by Doki, the online teaching platform she helped build. Along the way she’s become resourceful and has had to teach herself a host of new skills. Marie can be seen on her site, MariePoulin.com

Show Notes & Links
  • Marie formerly called herself a “Digital Craftswoman” (because it’s more than just craft these days)
  • Lately, Marie does 60% her work; 40% client work
  • Oki-Doki
  • Digital Strategy School, for designers – 10–12 beta testers
  • “To teach is to learn twice”
  • York-Sheridan joint program in Design
  • Thinkhouse Design
  • Getting Things Done, by David Allen
    • Work The System, by Sam Carpenter
    • Erica Heinz & Niki Brown, web designer guests on The Busy Creator
    • Joel Duggan & Laura Thomas, Canadian guests on The Busy Creator
    • Marie is not a morning person, so she’s set up her workflows around this
      • Tools
      • Basecamp, for client management
      • RescueTime, tracks what you’re working on
      • Systematic Success
      • Get Stuff Done Like A Boss: Design Your Workflow and Double Your Productivity in 21 Days, on Skillshare
      • Amazon, for lawn-care equipment
      • SASS
      • Flow app
      • IFTTT
      • Evernote
      • Google Docs/Drive
      • Wishlist, WordPress plugin
      • TextExpander
      • ClipMenu
      • TextMate or Sublime Text, text editors for web design
      • Timely app
      • Pillow Fight
      • Squamish, BC
      • Gaelic Football
      • Fitbit, which nags me during the day
        • Techniques
        • Be mindful of different working styles and personalities in a multi-disciplinary team
        • Facebook groups for professional insight
        • Share your behind-the-scenes process will help your peers and the industry
        • Use Wishlist to have your clients become “members”, with on-boarding and training built in
        • Set up a secret Pinterest board to collaborate with clients
        • Record your screen to teach staff necessary tasks
        • Number tasks and task components for easy organization
        • No meetings on Mondays
        • Use a Vision Board — a place to list goals for the month or year, big plans and project.
          • Habits
          • Take it upon yourself to learn new skills
          • Pick up good habits from the jobs you have; leave the bad ones
          • Learn best practices [for programming] from a true developer
          • Design your morning routine, even if it’s a later morning
          • Share your processes with people, even if it’s imperfect
          • Keep a “praise” folder in Evernote, email, etc.
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