make stuff you need
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Why you should do side projects and some of my ownTRANSCRIPT
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@almonk
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Designer at GoCardless, B2B payments company
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Designer at GoCardless, B2B payments company
Founded 2011, now UK’s largest Direct Debit bureau
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Designer at GoCardless, B2B payments company
Founded 2011, now UK’s largest Direct Debit bureau
Launching in Europe soon
Tuesday, 10 September 13
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(Do side projects)
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Why do a side project?
How to realise your ideas.
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Learn new skills with no pressure
Improve your business skills
Learn about press/PR
Meet new people
and finally...
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EMBRACE
Indirect benefits can be huge.
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failure / success
I prefer the term...
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Make something you need and you’ll make it
Know what you’re making
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A tube status appProject #1
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Too much functionality, not enough focusTuesday, 10 September 13
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Too much functionality, not enough focusTuesday, 10 September 13
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Too much functionality, not enough focusTuesday, 10 September 13
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Prototyped in HTML first
Learnt rubymotion over a week
Collab design with Simon Whybray
Shipped 2 weeks from idea
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What happened?
Featured in the Metro newspaper.
#2 in AppStore.
15,000+ downloads.
http://getlin.es/designandbanterGRAB A FREE COPY :D
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A concept sharing appProject #2
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What?
Show off site designs
Get them out of email & into browser
As little ‘workflow’ as possible
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Prototyped in Wordpress first
Learnt Ruby & Rails over a month
Shipped 2 weeks from idea
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What happened?
3,000 users (5% paying)
Used by Adobe, Facebook, Ideo
11,000+ projects
Sign up on site for invite,http://flatsi.es
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To sum up...
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To sum up...
Make something you need and you’ll make it
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To sum up...
Make something you need and you’ll make it
Know what you’re making
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To sum up...
Make something you need and you’ll make it
Know what you’re making
Embrace your fuccesses
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@almonk
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