Our job as designers is not to transmit our ideas, it’s to connect with others. Technical skills are great, but if you want a real multiplier of impact, improving your people skills could be the secret sauce. This talk will arm you with some practical advice for developing these skills.

1. Get over yourself
@doublethought
Vincent Feeney,
Senior Product Designer @ MYOB

2. Our job as designers is not to transmit; it’s to
connect.
Melis Senova
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3. A reflection

4. Start Up
20 people in same room

5. Enterprise
+1600 people, international

6. I now define success at work
very differently.

7. It’s not all about the stuff you
make.

8. 7 4 3 things that have helped me

9. Do more, say
less.
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10. Derek Sivers

11. I used to think I was
the ideas guy.

12. Ideas x Execution = Result

13. Brilliant idea x OK executionOK idea x Brilliant Execution >

14. Brilliant idea x OK executionOK idea x Brilliant Execution >
(The better one)

15. Embrace
feedback
loops.
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18. Don’t take
anything
personally
(that includes success).
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19. We should always be asking ourselves: “Is
this something that is, or is not, in my
control?”
Epictetus
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21. You control your own destiny -
to a degree.

22. Architect Gardener
(Nick Bligh)

24. Thanks!
@doublethought