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DESIGN INC X CREATIVE SOUTH 2017

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

[email protected]

@_bklmn

bkl.mn

youtube.com/bklmn

[email protected]

@hemeon

https://medium.com/@hemeon

hemeon.com