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July 9, 2018 Newsletter
Improving Your Team’s Presentation Skills Will Make You Rich
Let me tell you a story. If it sounds familiar it’s probably because it is. If it sounds painful it’s because it is. If it sounds expensive, well… you get my point.
— Mike Monteiro (@monteiro)
Plenty to Be Upset About
tldr: GET YOUR TICKETS NOW FOR Baratunde Thurston’s solo show in SF.
The web has a sense of place. We visit websites and as web designers we create design systems that help users navigate the page. So at what point do users become citizens of the digital worlds they spend their time in?
All New Yorkers complain about New York. And since I’ve moved to SF, it’s hard to escape the East coast vs. West coast dichotomy. It seems people who live in cities like to complain about that city and all that comes with it. Having an opinion about where you live does in fact contribute to feeling more like a citizen.
Back in the websites we spend our days in there’s certainly plenty to be upset about. Baratunde has come up with six demands for Big Tech on behalf of the collective inhabitants of the internet. He writes: “Since companies value us collectively, we must restore balance with a collective response that is based on the view that we’re in this together — that our rights and responsibilities are shared.” I couldn’t agree more.
I’ve had the great pleasure of being able to work with Baratunde at many of the Comedy Hackdays he hosted with Brian Janosch and the team at Cultivated Wit. This Thursday he’s bringing his own solo show to SF. You can get tickets here.
— Larisa Berger (@berglar)
I Like Big Shoes
Let’s talk about something meaningless, or rather, while full of meaning, not so critical to sanity or survival.
I like to think I don’t have a lot of stuff. Mostly I have books, more books than can fit in my home, so it’s a good thing I also have an office full of bookshelves. The other thing I have more of than I strictly need is shoes. Shoes are magical. In my compartmentalized mental budgeting, shoes fall under the transportation category. I do a lot of walking and don’t own a car. Shoes also serve a legitimate business function. If you call yourself a designer, and you don’t wear glasses, clients are going to look at your feet for bona fides. My favorites are designed by a Canadian guy with a Norwegian nameand friendly shop in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. John Fluevog was possibly the first person to import Doc Martens into North America and at 70, he is still going strong and coming up with wacky new styles. One of his iconic designs appeared in the Dee-Lite video for Groove Is in the Heart. That is some pure joy right there.
I like big shoes, but not boring lady pumps. I would definitely wear these. And, while I’m not into sneaker culture, I will agree that gentrification ruins everything.
— Erika Hall (@mulegirl)
VOD is Playing Around
We have the conversations we want you to hear on the Voice of Design. Are you listening? On the last episode, game designer and author Amy Jo Kim schooled us on Game Thinking and why some clients just don’t make the cut. Coming up this week, we talk to a design author we love from the DC area.
Walk through the fire and say hi on the Twitter.
— Voice of Design (@VOD_rocks)
