Have you ever had a dream project that slowly evolved into a state of mediocracy by the time it launched? We may have an epidemic on our hands: complacency. This disease is often triggered by short timelines, unset expectations, corporate red tape, lack of research, budget and sometimes motivation. Fortunately, there is a cure! Together, we will focus on how to keep pushing past the status quo to create something in which we can all be proud.

1. Complacency
Curing Design

2. 0
20
40
60
80
100
Time
Excitement

3. 0
20
40
60
80
100
Time
Excitement

4. a feeling of being satisfied with
how things are and not wanting
to try to make them better
complacency
noun | com·pla·cen·cy | kəm-ˈplā-sən(t)-sē

5. Common Causes
Design Complacency

6. Douglas Adams
I love the whooshing noise
they make as they go by.
‘‘I love deadlines.

7. Excited
to start working
on this project!

8. 3 additional
Wait,
projects are kicking off?

9. How many
revisions? In Photoshop?
In all screen sizes?

10. Are these within our
current scope?

11. Internet
Explorer 8?
Did you just say

12. Ping!
Ping!
Ping!
Ping!

13. 8 new meeting
requests?

14. Bunch of other slides

15. Optimize Your
Workflow

16. Ping!
Ping!
Ping!
Ping!
Ping!
Ping!
Ping!
Ping!
Ping!
Ping!
Constant
Interruptions
Ping!
Ping!

17. Better
Meetings

18. Prioritize
Tasks

19. Cost of
Perfection

20. Purposeful
Constraints
… build and test
nearly any idea
in just 40 hours.
‘‘

21. Politics
Workplace

23. People
Ask The Right

25. Work
Sell Your

26. Work
Sell Your

27. Motivation
Lacking

28. Attend
Events

29. Beyond
Design

30. Data-informed

31. Data-informed
overv

32. Henry Ford
‘‘
If I had asked people
what they wanted,
they would have
said faster horses

33. Henry Ford
‘‘
If I had asked people
what they wanted,
they would have
said faster horses

34. Rule
3-Click

35. Fold
Above the

36. KLPA (Joshua Kulpa)
Andy Clarke,
“Counting Stars: Creativity over Predictability”
‘‘
I fear that we're creating a
web the full of safe designs
because we’re driven by
the need in some of us for
predictability, reliability
and for repeatability …

37. Failure
Embracing

39. Magic
Link

40. Easy
Payments

41. Easier
Payments

42. Fun
Clever and

43. Wilson Miner, “When We Build”
‘‘
We’re actually in the
process of building an
environment where
we’ll spend most of
our time for the rest
of our lives …

44. Design can
Influence Elections

45. Design Can
Change The World

46. Stacy Kvernmo
Thank you!
@StacyKvernmo