With all we know about the value of design iteration, with all the giant leaps in technology, why do we not apply what we’ve learned to improving a 200 year old system?
Another election season passes and where are the discussions about what we’ve learned about ourselves and human nature that we can use to improve how we run our country and imagine our collective future?
I don’t know about you, but I am so tired, sad, angry, frustrated, scared — of watching us waste every day on meaningless arguments so obviously flawed from the start. Of no one standing up and saying “Stop. Enough. We need to focus on the big picture.” Of pretending that while we are singularly focused on asinine news cycles, there aren’t so many pressing, dire needs…
So you can be a fearless wielder of AI
Before you scroll down through this page and think “There is no way I’m getting into all this, no ma’am,” just hold up a sec and let me tell you one, er… four, very quick things first:
As someone who was trained in Swiss grids, rubylith, and letterpress — and has had to make those archaic skills work through 20+ years of design jobs evolving from print, branding, websites, apps, platform strategies, software and most recently AI — I 100% promise if you, if you follow these tried-and-true rules, you’ll be fine no matter how much of the tech stuff…
So you can be a fearless wielder of AI
Before you scroll down through this page and think “There is no way I’m getting into all this, no ma’am,” just hold up a sec and let me tell you one, er… four, very quick things first:
As someone who was trained in Swiss grids, rubylith and letterpress — and has had to make those archaic skills work through 20+ years of design jobs evolving from print, branding, websites, apps, platform strategies, software and most recently AI — I 100% promise if you, if you follow these tried-and-true rules, you’ll be fine no matter how much of the tech stuff…
So much good content here, even I need to go back through these and see them again!
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Proving how your work contributes to the bottom line, even when your job is about the squishy feely stuff
Unless you’re in sales, it’s likely you don’t have an exact price tag for how much money your efforts brought in last quarter. But even though attributing specific value to our work is a hard thing to do, that doesn’t stop the question from being asked…
Hey, can you get me numbers on your business impact this year? Kgreatthanks.
To which you probably reply, “Uh…sure thing,” then stare into space for a good 45 minutes wondering how you’re going to pull this off. Maybe you try and find the number of hours your team spent building product this year, determine…
Proving how your work contributes to the bottom line, even when your job is about the squishy feely stuff
Unless you’re in sales, it’s likely you don’t have an exact price tag for how much money your efforts brought in last quarter. But even though attributing specific value to our work is a hard thing to do, that doesn’t stop the question from being asked…
Hey, can you get me numbers on your business impact this year? Kgreatthanks.
To which you probably reply, “Uh…sure thing,” then stare into space for a good 45 minutes wondering how you’re going to pull this off. Maybe you try and find the number of hours your team spent building product this year, determine…
The steps and tools for setting up an AI Design Camp or Workshop
Any time you’re asked to run an AI-focused design workshop or camp, the very first step is to make a duplicate of this folder and move it to your team’s project folder where you can start customizing it:
Press release & storyboards, project brief
Exercise 7. Press release & storyboards
Exercise 8. Project brief
Big ideas, to be scenario, prioritizing ideas, technical and data specs
Exercise 4: Big Ideas
Exercise 5. To be scenario with AI
Goals, data
Before you do anything AI design-y…
DO NOT start without having your design thinking basics nailed first. Otherwise, you’ll spend your whole time doing a half-assed job trying to make assumptions about the direction these exercises provide. Trust me.
Specifically this means, make sure you have these done first:
