Notes from “How to be a Web Design Superhero” presented by Andy Clarke and Andy Budd.
Powers you need to be a web design superhero
- Keep pace with new trends and technologies
- Be Agile
- Stretch yourself
- Understand your clients needs
- Be able to convince your client that what they think they need, is not actually what they need
- Empathy - Understand your Users and their goals
- Be able to sense danger ( ‘here be dragons’)
- Precognition - Anticipate new trends
- X-Ray Vision - Understand the semantics
- Invulnerability - Don’t let comments and criticisms discourage you
- Have a sidekick
Who are your web design heros?
3 responses so far ↓
1 pberry // Mar 11, 2006 at 3:15 pm
Funny how you’re hearing ‘here be dragons’ all over the place now.
2 pberry // Mar 11, 2006 at 3:25 pm
Their slides are online (13.5MB PDF) now.
3 scott // Mar 12, 2006 at 9:16 am
To be honest, I added “here be dragons” but that was the gist of what they were saying.