CREATIVEENTREPRENEUR_LIFEAFTERCOLLEGE

Today I attended the Be Your Own Boss Life After College workshop. The workshop was excellent. We primarily looked at the way that a reliable process can be employed in order to create useful and effective products, companies, business, designs. 

I was particularly interested in applying this in my every day design decision in order to compliment my current design process. I think that sometimes my work process can lack efficiency, and I think that keeping this in mind will help me speed up my work process as I entire the professional atmosphere.

http://www.ideo.com/uk/

Firm that specialises in good ideas.

http://www.gv.com/lib/the-product-design-sprint-a-five-day-recipe-for-startups

The COSTAR process is very similar to the Google Design Sprint. It has been noted that the Google Design Sprint was based on the COSTAR process developed by IDEO. 

LIFEAFTERCOLLEGE

I applied to do a number of the Life After College workshops. I think that these will be very valuable for my personal professional practice. The workshops will give hopefully give me an extra set of tools as I embark into the professional environment. In addition, the workshops should help me figure out who I am and what it is I want to do. 

MANIFESTO

This was my manifesto presentation. My presentation lacked a lot of conventional manifesto, but I think that my intentions were made clear. The presentation works off my design context and is focussed around people, and designers that create their own professional context and space. 

I am particularly interested in the view of practice of Tibor Kalman. Tibor worked very closely with a range of different sectors, and also was able to maintain his own practice through a continued entrepreneurial tendency. 

The final part of the presentation focussed on me talking about getting out there and putting myself in situations and circumstances that are foreign to me as I feel this is where I can capitalise on my own growth. Constantly being in a new situation will allow me to grow, and teach me new skills. Whether this be in the form of a placement in London or abroad, or a project that is slightly out of my depth. It means I will have to learn new things in order to succeed. My irrational fear of failure will help me pull through and ensure that I learn the new skills that I need to succeed.