Creativity is not a gift exclusive to artists and designers. It is in fact a skill everyone can learn, including people who see themselves as analytical. In this talk I will share 10 habits of successful creative people and real-life examples of how these have led to successful outcomes in the business, design and technology world. Inspired by the book "Change your mind" by Rod Judkins.

1. 10habits of
successful
creative
people
by Yuan Wang
Creative Director,
Yump
yump.com.au

2. 1
You are
what you think
you are.
Andy
Warhol

3. “How can you call this art?” they say.
“You can’t paint as well as what’s his name…
and your model isn’t as pretty to begin with.”
Andy Warhol
Leading figure of 1950s Pop Art

4. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$105 million
for 1963’s Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)

5. “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
Sylvia Plath

6. 2
Question
everything,
everywhere,
forever.
Charles
Darwin

7. Everything around you that you call
life, was made up by people that
were no smarter than you.
And you can change it, you can
influence it, you can build your own
things that other people can use.
Steve Jobs

8. 3If you can’t
find a way,
make one.
Claude
Monet

9. After being repeatedly rejected by France’s official art show, the Salon de Paris, the
Impressionists staged the first of their own exhibitions in 1874. Despite early public
ridicule, their style was eventually adopted by mainstream Salon art by the 1890s.

10. Reel
Online Presentations
Axe
Website Feedback
Verify
Design Surveys
Solidify
Prototype Testing
Strike
Tasks List
Chop
Code Feedback
Influence
Design Presentations
Notable
Interface Feedback
Foundation
Responsive
Front-end Framework
Do you know that
besides Foundation,
Zurb also makes other
products, apps and
tools to solve their own
design problems?

11. 4Don’t leave
ideas in your
head.
Leonardo
Da Vinci

12. Leonardo Da Vinci perfected the art of sketching in the 15th century.
His sketchbooks contained brilliant inventions, ideas and discoveries.

13. From ideas to prototypes, sketch them all out.

14. Waterproof
Notepads
$15.00

15. 5
Create
your
environment.
Pablo
Picasso

16. “The whole studio seemed to be bristling with
Picasso’s. All the bits of wood and frames had
become like his pictures.”
Vanessa Bell after visiting Picasso’s studio in 1914

17. This is the house
used by Mark
Zuckerberg and the
Facebook team in
the summer of 2004.
You don’t need
expensive fitouts
to make your
environment creative
and stimulating for
innovative thinking.

18. 6
Join forces
and be a force.
Lennon &
McCartney

19. Successful
partnerships
Larry Page + Sergey BrinPierre Omidyar + Jeffrey Skoll
Ben Cohen + Jerry Greenfield
Evan Willams + Biz Stone
Steve Jobs + Steve Wozniak
John Lennon + Paul McCartney

20. 7Be
AUDACIOUS.
Ruslan
Kogan

21. Only a big, crazy idea can
shatter the status quo.
The best businesses do
things in a way that no one
has ever done before.
Ruslan Kogan,
Founder of Kogan.com

22. 8
Creat chance
because
chance creates.

23. Things
discovered
by chance

24. 9Simplify,
then simplify
more.
Steve
Jobs

25. That’s been one of my mantras —
focus and simplicity.
Simple can be harder than complex.
You have to work hard to get your
thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s
worth it in the end because once you
get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs

26. 10Make it happen.

27. It’s not
about ideas.
It’s about
making ideas
happen.
Scott Belsky,
Co-founder of Behance
Thinking big is
an absolute waste
of time if you’re not
going to execute on
your ideas.
Ruslan Kogan,
Founder of Kogan.com

28. Let’s
connect
@yuanwangtweetsTHANKS
yump.com.au