#DesignThyself September 2014
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Join Be Social Change for Design Thyself on Wednesday, September 17th at 7:30pm w/ Lee-Sean Huang, Co-founder and Creative Director at Foossa. Are you interested in learning about design principles to affect change in the world? Why not start with yourself? #DesignThyself brings design thinking and design doing to a personal level. Learn how to use design as a tool for changing your own creative habits and behavior. * Doors open at 7:00, class starts at 7:30 sharp * WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Learn how to use design principles and methodology to cultivate a new creative habit and to make an intentional and proactive change in your life. We will draw from the fields of interaction design, activism for social/cultural change, as well as cognitive psychology. This class is based on material previously offered at the School of Visual Arts MFA Design for Social Innovation and on Skillshare.com. WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR People interested in cultivating a new habit or modifying existing behaviors. People interested in applying design (thinking/doing) and cognitive psychology to their own lives. Designers and aspiring changemakers looking to "be the change" the way they want to see the world. INSTRUCTOR BIO LeeSean_HeadshotLee-Sean Huang is the co-founder and creative director of Foossa. He is also affiliated with Purpose, where he has worked as a designer, strategist, and now as an advisor. He has devoted his career to working with social enterprises, nonprofits, and communities to create transformative experiences for positive social change. He has collaborated with organizations including: Avaaz.org, Human Rights Watch, the United Nations, the SEIU, Creative Commons, Made in the Lower East Side, and Afro Brazil Arts. He is also the author of the forthcoming guide, What’s Strategy Got To Do With It which forms part of the Social Good Guides produced by the Social Innovators Collective. Lee-Sean holds a Bachelor’s degree in Government from Harvard and a Master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.
Transcript of #DesignThyself September 2014
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#DesignThyself !
Learn design principles to acquire a new habit/behavior, make it stick, and document the change.
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Design Thyself
Know Thyself
Cure Thyself
γνῶθι σεαυτόν Cura te ipsum #DesignThyself
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DESIGN: Creating with intention
through iteration
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Marc + Hannah
http://www.fitassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/SVA-Fundamentals-of-DSI-Book-2013.pdf
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DESIGN: a plan for arranging elements to best accomplish a particular purpose.
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Eames
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What are the boundaries of design? What are the boundaries of problems?
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Eames
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“You’re born naked and the rest is design”
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#DesignThyself
Personify Visualize Simplify
Systematize Document
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#DesignThyself Tools
Vijay New Delhi, India
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Milk delivery truck driver, 4 kids,
lives on the outskirts of Delhi. Grew
up in a slum, but salary has helped
him move to an adjacent
neighborhood with better
government services. Concerned
about the state of sanitation.
Camille New Orleans
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Music student, studying jazz and
ethnomusicology. Studied abroad for
a summer in Senegal, which opened
her eyes to issues in the developing
world. Concerned with issues of girls/
women’s empowerment.
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SINCE EACH OF US WAS SEVERAL, THERE WAS ALREADY QUITE A CROWD.
I AM LARGE, I CONTAIN
MULTITUDES
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lg0inkkwIc
Amish Futurist
Personify Visualize Simplify
Systematize Iterate
Document
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#DesignThyself Tools
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Personify Visualize Simplify
Systematize Iterate
Document
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#DesignThyself Tools
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Heuristic
A mental shortcut that allows people to
solve problems and make judgments
quickly and efficiently.
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A rule-of-thumb strategy.
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Tony Hsieh’s ICEE
4 categories of sharable content
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Inspire
Connect
Entertain
Educate
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Tim Ferriss: Meta-Learn DISSS
Deconstruction of a skill to be learned into manageable
component parts
!Identification of likely failure points to be avoided in
early training
!Selection of the 20% of inputs that drive 80% of results
!Sequencing, ie. whether learning a skill in something
other than the obvious order might speed mastery
!Stakes, which are necessary for motivation in the face
of the temptation to quit.
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http://thebuildnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Checklists980.jpg
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Personify Visualize Simplify
Systematize Iterate
Document
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#DesignThyself Tools
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Lee-Sean Huang / [email protected] / @leesean
Personify Visualize Simplify
Systematize Iterate
Document
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#DesignThyself Tools
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#DesignThyself Project Cheat Sheet1. Have a defined scope and time span.
2. Start small and fast. Break it down into chunks,
missions, episodes, or quests.
3. But have a big goal/epic quest in mind.
4. Make it public. Make it social.
5. Use existing forces, tendencies, habits.
6. Build off what you know.
7. Restart something you have left behind.
8. Make it emotional. FUN!
9. Automate as much as you can.
10. Follow the freaks.
11. It’s ok to cheat.
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Previous #DesignThyself Exampleshttp://cupofboring.tumblr.com/
http://becomingthebest.in/
http://thecostofawesome.tumblr.com/
http://tanyameetsnewyork.tumblr.com/
http://sundayspice.tumblr.com/
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”–Bruce Lee
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