Collisions Trends Holidays 2018.
Books, podcasts, exhibitions, series, films and records. These are some recommendations from our experts for your vacations.
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8 min readAug 8, 2018
How to design, develop and sell VUIs, maximize your work with Sketch App, doing a Design Critique effectively. In recent months our community is sharing and learning about the latest trends in UX, code and marketing.
To continue inspiring you with the best, here is a special selection of our experts. Our experts are Google, IBM, Adobe, Sngular, Google experts and many more pioneering companies in the sector.
What to read? (books / posts)
- A Designer’s Research Manual, 2nd edition, Updated and Expanded: Succeed in design by knowing your clients and understanding what they really need, byJenn Visocky O’Grady and Ken Visocky O’Grady. It interests you because “this essential manual will help readers understand what design research is and why it is necessary, describe proven techniques and methods and explain how to incorporate them into any creative process”.
- Troll Corporation by Carmen and Laura Pacheco. It interests you because “The trolls are no longer furry mythological beings of fairy tales: now they lurk behind anonymous internet accounts to criticize your tastes, despite your comments and laugh at your publications in the most painful way possible. Or at least that’s what everyone thinks. In fact, behind each trolley is an organized company specialized in making your digital life a nightmare experience: Troll Corporation”.
- Innovating. A Doer’s manifesto by Luis Pérez-Breva. It interests you because “Innovation is for the makers: it’s not necessary that you wait for an idea that breaks the earth, but you can build it with a hunch and scale it to impact”.
- Inventing the future. Postcapitalism and a world without work by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek. It interests you because “this book proposes an alternative policy, a policy that seeks to regain control over our future and encourage the ambition to create a more modern world than capitalism allows”.
- CRO Design and development of digital products by Ricardo Tayar López. It interests you because “this book reveals how to create a stable and long-lasting digital business, and how to manage it and make it efficient with the CRO (Conversion Rate Optimization — improvement of the conversion ratio) methodology. You will learn to design, create, manage and optimize a digital business by working in different areas: modeling, choice of technology, design and user experience (UX), digital analytics and online traffic collection, all of them cohesive by the methodology of the conversion improvement”.
- Inspired. How to create Tech product customers love by Marty Cargan. It interests you because “how do today’s most successful technology companies, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla, design, develop and implement the products that have won the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it in a very different way than the vast majority of technology companies. At INSPIRED, Marty Cagan offers readers a master class on how to structure and form a vibrant and successful product organization, and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love, and that will work for your business”.
- The Decision Book. Fifty models for strategic thinking by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler. It interests you because “most of us face the same questions every day: what do I want? And how can I get it? How can I live happier and work more efficiently? Here you will find the best decision-making models used in MBA courses, and elsewhere, to help you address these important issues, from the well-known (Eisenhower matrix for time management) to the less familiar but equally useful ( the Swiss cheese model)”.
- 10x marketing formula by Garret Moon (CEO of Coschedule). It interests you because “ready to stop playing following the leader and start thinking like a startup? This book tries to find strategic shortcuts. It is a short circuit on the road to amazing growth. You have to find your own formula, and the 10x-Marketing Formula is that route”.
What to do? (exhibitions)
- Disney: The art of storytelling, in Caixaforum. It interests you because “through original materials, Disney. The art of storytelling “explains the leap of characters and plots of classical literature to the movement and the sensibility of animation cinema”.
- Pirate Summit. It interests you because “it is the largest invitation / request conference in Europe for start-up startups, investors and corporate executives, its goal is to represent the true base entrepreneurial spirit: authentic, crazy and real”.
- Gus Van Sant, in la Casa Encendida. It interests you because “it’s the first retrospective in Spain dedicated to the films and artistic creations of the American filmmaker, icon of independent cinema, a true multidisciplinary trip that is divided into different sections and offers a tour of the creative force and the particular universe of Gus Van Sant A retrospective show consisting of films, plastic works (photographs, drawings and music unpublished in Spain) and various artistic collaborations (William Burroughs, William Eggleston, Bruce Weber, David Bowie) that immerse us in the universe of this cult director , emblem of anti-conformist and radical cinema”.
What to listen? (music&podcasts)
- High as hope, Florence + The machine
- My dear melancoly, The Weeknd
- Violence, Editors
- Villains, Queens of the Stone Age
- Bad witch, NIN
- Songexploder. It interests you because “it’s a podcast where the musicians disarm their songs, and piece by piece, they tell the story of how they were made.” Each episode is produced and edited by the presenter and creator Hrishikesh Hirway in Los Angeles. While Hrishikesh asks the artists to delve into the specific decisions that were made to create their work, Hrishikesh edits the interviews, removing his side of the conversation and condensing the story to focus on how the artists brought their stories to life. songs, Björk, U2, Metallica, Solange, The National, Arcade Fire and more than a hundred artists are the protagonists of this podcast, Hrishikesh has talked about Song Exploder and the intersection of music, creativity and design in places like Google Design Conference, Pinterest, Intel, Etsy and IDEO”.
- How I built this with Guy Raz. It interests you because “Guy Raz immerses himself in the stories behind some of the best-known companies in the world such as Instragram, Slack, How I built it. This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists, and the movements they built.”
- 33 voices startups &venture capital. “Moe and Jenna Abdou interview a highly influential list of founders, venture capitalists, CEOs, master thinkers, best-selling authors, academic and creative minds to deconstruct the hidden perceptions that only those who are building revolutionary businesses can reveal. For ten years, 33voices has been closely involved with founders, senior executives and business builders to identify interesting and compelling challenges that result in thoughtful dialogue with contributors who not only think differently, but represent the frontiers of knowledge in business, culture and lifestyle”.
What to watch? (videos / movies / tv shows/ comics)
- Paquita Salas by los Javis. It interests you because “Paquita, one of the best representatives of actors in Spain in the 90s, is looking for new stars desperately, after losing her biggest client.” This tv show has hooked thousands of fans, the day of her debut became in Trending Topic, and among his followers he has many well-known faces”.
- Designers: watch, the must-see documentaries for designers&artists. It interests you because they are “documentaries that all designers and artists should see”.
- Channel Zero. It interests you because “a chilling story without peer, Channel Zero dedicates each season to tell a story of original horror. The first season, entitled Channel Zero: Candle Cove, is based on the terrifying viral Internet story created by Kris Straub. the growing obsession of a man with the children of the television program Candle Cove, a dismal program of puppets of the 80s with a disturbing connection with a mystery of his unsolved childhood”.
- Preacher. It interests you because “it’s the avant-garde story of Jesse Custer, a preacher from a small town in Texas where he lives a mysterious entity that allows him to develop a very unconventional power, Jesse, along with his allies, Tulip, an experienced shooter, and Cassidy, an Irish vampire, embarks on a wild and dark journey unlike any other, based on the cult comic Preacher.” You can watch or read the comic.
- Can not you stop creating? El Bulli, story of a dream. It interests you because “it tells the incredible story of how Ferrán Adrià, a boy of humble roots and without interest in cooking, becomes the most influential chef and one of the most controversial thinkers of our time.” His mythical restaurant El Bulli changed forever the way we eat, and is a pioneer in the dialogue between gastronomy, art, design and science”.
- Disenchantment,the new tv show by Matt Groening, creator of the Simpson. It interests you because “it’s the most anticipated animation series of the year, (Des) charm is about life and death, love and sex, and how to keep laughing in a world full of suffering and idiots, despite what the old men and magicians and other idiots tell you”.
- Joy. It interests you because “between satirical comedy and melodrama, Joy raises classic themes such as the short distance that separates triumph from failure, matriarchy, the excesses of capitalism or media glory through a character that fits our time”.
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