Similarities in Perfection Between Magic & Design Ultimately, we want to provide a perfect experience -- one devoid of flaws and full of delight. This is where experience design and professional magic have much in common, as our desire for perfection is behind what's driving us. What you may not realize, however, is professional magic has a hundred year jump on experience design. That field's drive for perfection started before the time of Houdini, in the late 1800s. The methods, philosophies, and culture behind their drive has gone through many years of refinement and maturation. There's a lot that today's experience designers can learn from how professional magicians approach their craft. In this one-of-a-kind presentation, Jared Spool (who studies design) and Reed Spool (who studies and practices professional magic) will discuss the similarities of these two fields and their drive for perfection.

1. The Best is the Enemy
of the Good
Jared M. Spool (@jmspool) User
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Engineering

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3. Wikipedia

4. Professional Magic
Experience Design

5. Creative
Business
Community
of Practice

6. Part I:
Mastery

7. Being a beginner sucks
Mimic
Innovate

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12. Being a beginner sucks
Mimic
Innovate

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14. TechCrunch

15. Site

17. Are we plotting the path of
mastery?

18. Part II:
Renaissance
Man
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or W
* Renaissance Person
just sounds stupid.

19. Knowledge of
every aspect

20. Learn how to save
your ass when
things go wrong

21. Yearn to learn

22. Storytelling Agile Sketching
Methods
Ethnography Analytics
Information Usability
Social Architecture Practices Use Cases
Networks
Marketing
Information Visual
Design Design
Experience
Design
Design Process Interaction
Management Design
Technology
Critiquing Copy Editing & Presenting
Writing Curating
Business Facilitating Domain
Knowledge Knowledge
ROI

25. Are we
building Renaissance Men?
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* Who will kick the men’s asses,
as we all know.

26. Part III:
Practice

27. Practice is not work.
Practice makes you
a better person.

28. Practice doesn’t make perfect.
Perfect practice makes perfect.

29. Practice never becomes fun.
You have to make it fun.

30. When do we allow ourselves the
time space budget
to practice?

31. Storytelling Agile Sketching
Methods
Ethnography Analytics
Information Usability
Social Architecture Practices Use Cases
Networks
Marketing
Information Visual
Design Design
Experience
Design
Design Process Interaction
Management Design
Technology
Critiquing Copy Editing & Presenting
Writing Curating
Business Facilitating Domain
Knowledge Knowledge
ROI

33. The Best is the Enemy
of the Good

34. The Best is the Enemy
of the Good
Are we plotting the path of mastery?
Are we building Renaissance People?
When do we allow ourselves the time, space, or budget to
practice?

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