9. X-Men?
• Comic books, man.
• X-Men are mutants, but more specifically
the next evolutionary step, born into a
world of humans.
• These humans are dinosaurs, a walking
dead blip in the evolutionary line.
• Being a human sucks.
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11. Well, what type of
designer am I?
• Human factors?
• Interaction designer?
• Visual designer?
• “User experience designer”? (beers on me
if more than two people in the room agree
on what that actually is...)
• Developer? (wait a minute...)
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12. Oh snap. I’m a human.*
• *unless I do 3 or more of the things on the
previous slide. Then I’m a mutant!
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13. To mutants, these aren’t
functional roles.
• They are disciplines.
• Designers do most, if not all of them.
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14. In fact, they do more of
just about everything.
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42. Ben Silbermann
• Designer
• Developer
• Business/product guy
• Pinterest cofounder (on to new project)
• 19 years old
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43. Our summer intern
• shipped two games to app store
• has his own company of three people
• does all his own visual design
• just turned 15
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44. Everyone future
designer under the age
of 12
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62. then mutate your
organization
• Embed yourself with developers
• Provide value to the implementation teams
• Seek open spaces
• Throw out the spec
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63. What if my company
won’t change?
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