Design for Engineers (and Other Non-Designers)
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What is design? And why should anyone care about it? A primer for engineers, business people, and other non-designer design enthusiasts.
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- 1. Hello.
- 5. The History of Typography During the Renaissance 1422 - 1536 (just kidding)
- 6. DESIGN FOR ENGINEERS (and other people who aren’t designers)
- 7. JORDAN KOSCHEI (ko - shy)
- 8. FUSION MEDIA Director of User Experience THE INDUSTRY Managing Editor
- 11. Two Views on Design
- 12. I’d design it myself, but I don’t know the Photoshop.” “
- 14. So what is design?
- 15. Applied arts Architecture Automotive design Benchmarking design Communication design Configuration design Engineering design Environmental graphic design Experiential graphic design Fashion design Game design Graphic design Information architecture Industrial design Instructional design Interaction design Interior design Landscape architecture Lighting design Military design methodology Modular design Motion graphic design Product design Process design Service design Software design Sound design Systems architecture Systems design Systems modeling Transition design Urban design User experience design Visual design Web design Biological design
- 16. Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. Steve Jobs
- 17. To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. Milton Glaser
- 18. Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution. Ivan Chermayeff
- 19. Design is the human side of engineering.
- 20. 1. Design is scientific. 2. Design is purpose-driven. 3. Design is holistic. 4. Design is objective. What is design?
- 21. 1. Design is scientific. 2. Design is purpose-driven. 3. Design is holistic. 4. Design is objective. What is design?
- 22. 1. Design is scientific. 2. Design is purpose-driven. 3. Design is holistic. 4. Design is objective. What is design?
- 23. 1. Design is scientific. 2. Design is purpose-driven. 3. Design is holistic. 4. Design is objective. What is design?
- 24. Why care about design?
- 28. Design is about choosing to care in an increasingly cynical world.
- 29. The Engineer’s Quick-and-Dirty Guide to Design Non- Designer’s
- 30. 1. Everything means something. 2. Design is in the details. 3. Be generous with whitespace. 4. Design is 95% typography. 5. Always be thinking of the user. The Engineer’s Quick-and-Dirty Guide to Design
- 31. 1. Everything means something. 2. Design is in the details. 3. Be generous with whitespace. 4. Design is 95% typography. 5. Always be thinking of the user. The Engineer’s Quick-and-Dirty Guide to Design
- 32. 1. Everything means something. 2. Design is in the details. 3. Be generous with whitespace. 4. Design is 95% typography. 5. Always be thinking of the user. The Engineer’s Quick-and-Dirty Guide to Design
- 35. 1. Everything means something. 2. Design is in the details. 3. Be generous with whitespace. 4. Design is 95% typography. 5. Always be thinking of the user. The Engineer’s Quick-and-Dirty Guide to Design
- 41. 1. Minimum 16px font. 2. Lines around 2 alphabets long. 3.Line spacing at 120 - 150% 4.Dark-on-light, not light-on-dark. 5.Use a basic font, like Helvetica or Georgia. The Boring Typography Slide The Engineer’s Quick-and-Dirty Guide to Design
- 42. 1. Everything means something. 2. Design is in the details. 3. Be generous with whitespace. 4. Design is 95% typography. 5. Always be thinking of the user. The Engineer’s Quick-and-Dirty Guide to Design
- 44. Design is important. Embrace it.
- 46. HUDSON VALLEY TECH MEETUP
- 49. If you’re interested in design, you should be on Twitter. btw
- 50. fin.
Editor's Notes
- It’s about leveraging our innate biases and predispositions to make things better to use.
- It doesn’t exist for its own sake; it exists to facilitate a goal. Design without purpose is art.
- It’s not just how a product looks, but how it acts and feels.
- There is a best design — the one that’s most effective at enabling a product’s goals. We may never know what that “best possible design” is for a particular product, but we can use data and iteration to get ever-closer.
- There’s a bigger picture. Any artifact created by human hands, dreamt up by a human mind, is designed, whether its creator realizes it or not. Everything is designed, but few things are designed well. Why not have the things we make be designed to as high a degree of excellence as the things we surround ourselves with? We all like to surround ourselves with things that are well-considered and well-made. Nobody thinks to themselves, “I wish I had lower-quality things.” Design is a way of showing respect to the people who use the things we create. It’s natural for us to want to the things that we do to be excellent. Creating things — designing things — is in our nature. We’re born with a desire to make things that we’re proud of, to engage in the creative act and declare the outcome “good.” Have you ever met a five-year-old who didn’t like making things? Every kid likes to draw with crayons, or build with Lego. They get older and start making things with more and more sophistication — they write stories, or make movies with a camcorder, or learn to program video games. A creative adult is just a child who survived. The question, then, isn’t “why should we care about design,” but rather, “Why _wouldn’t_ we care about design?” Design is about choosing to care in an increasingly cynical, jaded world.
- The NYT ran a study indicating that our perception of a statement’s truth depends on the font it’s written in. The outcome of the 2000 US presidential election came down to the design of the ballots used in a small region of Florida. Design-oriented companies in the S&P index outperform their non-design-oriented counterparts by 228% over 10 years. Mark Zuckerberg changes the phrasing of a dropdown on Facebook and billions of people worldwide find themselves thinking about friendship or affiliation differently. Show me a world leader with that kind of influence.
- On my Twitter account (@jordankoschei), I keep a list called “Designers to Follow.” If you’re not sure who to follow, that’s a good start.