Over the year my aims are to goo to more talks then i did last year. This is as they are good place to socialise with designers, meet people (for work placement) and also a lot cheaper as student and next year i might not be able to do this again, take advantage of being a student for my last year.
Design Manchester is a design event that takes once a year in the centre of Manchester city, this is event that presents speakers around different subject areas over the day. This year we need to do a placement for 2 weeks, as i live near manchester this would be one of the cities where i'd aim to do this placement therefor going to this talk may be a good place to allow for me to network with Manchester design studios/Creatives.
NETWORK, NETWORK, NETWORK
research
Before going to the talk the list of speaker has been released this gives me chance to follow/research before the talk so if i get chance to speak to them after the talk i have informed questions to ask.
-Naresh Ramchandani (Pentagram) followed on twitter
-Jane Murison (BBC UX), followed on instagram and twitter
-Sean Perkins (North) followed on instagram and twitter
-Tash Wilcocks ( Hyper Island) followed on instagram and twitter, connected on Linked In
-Lawrence Kitson (Co-op Digital) followed on twitter
-Alex McDowell (USC) followed on instagram and twitter
-Emily Forgot, followed on instagram and twitter
-Eilen Van Loon (OMA) followed on instagram and twitter
EVENT -
what i learn from each talk
Naresh Ramchandani (Pentagram) Talk
-learn from anyone
-humour keeps your real
-keep people interested by doing different things
-everything creative starts with in idea, a BIG STUPID IDEA
-do wok for yourself! make sure you don't just do work for money
-private project are as important
-trying things is fun, might not always work but it's fun and makes you a better designer
Jane Murison (BBC UX) Talk
-introduce yourself with humour when you present
-don't take presentations to serious, add in humour it makes people more interested and more relaxed
-people who run facebook don't have facebook (weird)
-EMAIL FOR CASE STUDY FOR DISSERTATION, knows alot about social media
-bbc loves you
Sean Perkins (North) Talk
- mostly based around branding
- research grouprates hastag, normalizing judgement DISSERTATION
-steps for effective branding
1 research competitors
2 research issues/problem and identify the issue
3 interview client, whats wrong
4 test a few options
5 be realistic
6 find focus
7 get feedback
8 show people in general/ see any issues
9 work with the client
10 keep pushing ideas to different platforms
11 refer back to the brief constantly
12 build brand guideline as you go
Tash Wilcocks (Hyper Island) Talk
- take time away from social media each day is healthy for you
-created mundane a day
- research Tristan Harris, social media is more addictive than heroine, DISSERTATION
- we like likes becasue like crave attention like cavemen
-social media give you just enough to get addicted
-dopamine induced loop created so you go back
-Ira glass, it's the life
-millennial take 25000 self a year, 54 hours a year taking selfies.
Emily Forgot Talk
- take time to do stuff you like
-make sure you have stuff you like in your portfolio
-do work you like, but have limit to the amount you do (time limit)
-take time off when you need to
-find what you love, how weird but use this to influence your work
-break the algorithm, do stuff that doesn't fit sometimes to give your brains something new
-look at everything
-take photos of what you like
-find things that make you smile
-allow for brief distractions
-omaamo
-werid ca
After the talk it was clear that Tash Wilcock's and Jane Mursion's talks about social media would make them very useful case studies to be interview for my dissertation.
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