Download - Make stuff you need
@almonk
Tuesday, 10 September 13
Tuesday, 10 September 13
Designer at GoCardless, B2B payments company
Tuesday, 10 September 13
Designer at GoCardless, B2B payments company
Founded 2011, now UK’s largest Direct Debit bureau
Tuesday, 10 September 13
Designer at GoCardless, B2B payments company
Founded 2011, now UK’s largest Direct Debit bureau
Launching in Europe soon
Tuesday, 10 September 13
(Do side projects)
Tuesday, 10 September 13
Why do a side project?
How to realise your ideas.
Tuesday, 10 September 13
Learn new skills with no pressure
Improve your business skills
Learn about press/PR
Meet new people
and finally...
Tuesday, 10 September 13
EMBRACE
Indirect benefits can be huge.
Tuesday, 10 September 13
failure / success
I prefer the term...
Tuesday, 10 September 13
Make something you need and you’ll make it
Know what you’re making
Tuesday, 10 September 13
A tube status appProject #1
Tuesday, 10 September 13
Too much functionality, not enough focusTuesday, 10 September 13
Too much functionality, not enough focusTuesday, 10 September 13
Too much functionality, not enough focusTuesday, 10 September 13
Tuesday, 10 September 13
Tuesday, 10 September 13
Prototyped in HTML first
Learnt rubymotion over a week
Collab design with Simon Whybray
Shipped 2 weeks from idea
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Tuesday, 10 September 13
What happened?
Featured in the Metro newspaper.
#2 in AppStore.
15,000+ downloads.
http://getlin.es/designandbanterGRAB A FREE COPY :D
Tuesday, 10 September 13
Tuesday, 10 September 13
A concept sharing appProject #2
Tuesday, 10 September 13
What?
Show off site designs
Get them out of email & into browser
As little ‘workflow’ as possible
Tuesday, 10 September 13
Tuesday, 10 September 13
Prototyped in Wordpress first
Learnt Ruby & Rails over a month
Shipped 2 weeks from idea
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Tuesday, 10 September 13
What happened?
3,000 users (5% paying)
Used by Adobe, Facebook, Ideo
11,000+ projects
Sign up on site for invite,http://flatsi.es
Tuesday, 10 September 13
To sum up...
Tuesday, 10 September 13
To sum up...
Make something you need and you’ll make it
Tuesday, 10 September 13
To sum up...
Make something you need and you’ll make it
Know what you’re making
Tuesday, 10 September 13
To sum up...
Make something you need and you’ll make it
Know what you’re making
Embrace your fuccesses
Tuesday, 10 September 13
@almonk
Tuesday, 10 September 13