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How to be a ‘Web Design Superhero’

March 11th, 2006 · 3 Comments

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?

Tags: SXSW · Web Design

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.