There's a movement brewing built upon leveraging the transformative power of creativity to help us work and create better so that we can produce work infused with meaning. Discover how by knowing your Why, instilling tiny habits to cultivate your creative spark, and finally, fomenting creative collaboration based on the tenets of improv and open spaces, you can take the spark of Creativity (R)Evolution and use it as the impetus to push you, your teams, and your companies to create betterness.

1. The Calm Creativity (R)evolution
Denise R. Jacobs
User Experience Professionals Association Conference
Washington, DC
12 July 2013

2. I am:
@denisejacobs
This fine event:
@uxpa_int #wssmiami
I’m talking about inciting a:
#creativityrevolution
For the Twitters

3. Conferences
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toprankblog/2280204274/

4. Ideas!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjliew/1286367571/

5. Dense networks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelastminute/3114650732/

6. The microcosm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44568283@N02/4097561067/

7. People are neurons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wellcomeimages/5988150008/

8. The initial excitement
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ableman/543078380/

9. Gets taken over by habit
http://www.flickr.com/photos/irrezolut/2311904560/

10. Photo by Derek Kearney
I have a goal

11. After writing my book
Photo: Dense Jacobs

12. I had an epiphany
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44085287@N05/4055814772/

13. Is a transformative power
http://www.flickr.com/photos/designandtechnologydepartment/4771136128/

14. Creativity (R)Evolution

15. Two ways
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boklm/486678763/

16. The Calm Revolutionary

17. (R)Evolution is different from Revolution
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stargardener/7037360553/

18. Our model: the coral polyp
http://www.flickr.com/photos/drthompson/3689420515/

19. Builds rich environments
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Coral_Reef.jpg

20. You are the gateway
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eschipul/4396790244/

21. Yes, it’s all about you
http://www.flickr.com/photos/siutou_amy/2306794554/

22. The Oxygen Mask Theory

23. Love what you do. Do what you love.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmscottimd/616642026/

24. When you’re in touch with that spark
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaptainkobold/4812035672/

25. It comes magic

26. Opens you up

27. Self-ful transfroms to

28. Selfless

29. Putting into Practice

30. Tiny Habits

31. The structure
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anetq/8543067943/

32. Big results
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anetq/8543069503/

33. (The Personal)
Cultivate the habit of nurturing your spark

34. Your spark deserves to be protected
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aguslepe/5512044294/

35. Start with Why
http://www.flickr.com/photos/annnna/2228189828/

36. Recognize your brilliance
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonathan_hamner/3386076488/

37. Don’t focus on your weaknesses
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonathan_hamner/3386076488/

38. Shift into habits you want to develop
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rene_ehrhardt/2762573549/

39. Think of several topics you are a bad-
ass in. Write up some talk
descriptions based on your interests
and expertise.
Be courageous and share them with
peers.
Homework: Write a talk description

40. Think of 1-2 tiny habits you will do to
nurture the spark ignited at this
conference.
Homework: Tiny Habit to Nurture the Spark

41. (The Collective)
Cultivate the habit of fomenting
synergistic creative collaboration

42. Creativity: super linear scaling
http://www.flickr.com/photos/international-festival/3019543830/

43. Escape your silo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coffeemick/5106610165/

44. Listen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/theory/3193684688/

45. Get your Improv on
http://www.flickr.com/photos/roel1943/5740295789/

46. Accept the offer, start where you are
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zen/3446600695/

47. Make your partner(s) look good
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31246066@N04/4597640798/

48. Builds trust
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrote/2646295354/

49. Collaborations get increasingly stronger
http://www.flickr.com/photos/schipulites/5407946699/

50. Think of 1-2 tiny habits you will do to
cultivate a culture of creative
collaboration around you.
Homework: Tiny Habit of Creative Collaboration

51. Viva La Revolution!

52. Yeah!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickerbulb/53116195/

53. “At the most fundamental level, a first-class
user experience designer is obsessed with
other people’s happiness and has chosen this
career in the hopes to change the world. Not
because it will make them famous or rich or
powerful or get them attention in any way,
but because they have the desire to make
people’s lives better — and this is the best
way they know how to do it.”
- Whitney Hess
"How to Evaluate a UX Designer for Your
Company, or, What Makes a Great User
Experience Designer”

54. Personal fulfillment
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pocait/2847866615/

55. Bigger than just yourself
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7730492@N03/4957946157/

56. Team and company creating Betterness

57. Eudaimonia
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bohman/174718774/

58. “Companies need a jolt”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorelei-ranveig/2294885580/

59. At this conference, with you
http://www.flickr.com/photos/moqub/2745092532/

60. We can evolve creatively
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/6005503875/

61. And build the structures
http://www.behance.net/gallery/keep-calm-and-carry-on/2531269

62. ‘Nuff said.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20872388@N06/5572306965/

63. My articles for further reading
netmagazine.com/features/
four-secrets-enhancing-
creative-productivity
alistapart.com/articles/
reigniting-your-creative-spark/
alistapart.com/articles/
banishing-your-inner-critic/

64. My books!
The CSS Detective
Guide
CSSDetectiveGuide.com
InterAct With
Web Standards
InterActWithWebStandards.com
My chapter:
“Learning with the
Web”
Smashing Books #3 &
#3 1/3
SmashingBook.com
My chapter:
“The Missing Element
of Redesign: Story”

65. DeniseJacobs.com
denise@denisejacobs.com
twitter.com/denisejacobs
facebook.com/denisejacobsdotcom
I speak, write, and evangelize Creativity!
Photo used with permission: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aarronwalter/4629078087/

66. And finally…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27620885@N02/2609974180/