SXSW: Design Workflows at Work: How Top Designers Work Their Magic
[Notes from this panel with Bryan Veloso, Jeff Croft, Veerle Pieters, Kelsey Ruger]
So what does it take to be a good web designer? There isn't an obvious template.
KR: So what's a typical day like?
JC: I work at a newspaper company and the other people in the building are editors, reporters, etc. It's very fast-paced, it's always buzzing. Our workspace is an open collaborative kind of thing. Get ups late every day and checks email and feeds at home. Gets to work around 10:30.
When at the office, prefer to do creative work alone, without music, etc. More production level stuff is done at work while design work is done in private at home in the evenings.
When people were interviewed most people said they need music but I find it distracting.
VP: I need music. It blocks out the outside world and let's more inspiration happen. CSS required complete silence.
BV: Complete silence makes me feel dead.
VP: There is a sense of absence.
BV: I thought I was the only one who needed distractions but it seems like most people need this.
JC: Almost everyone who was interviewed said that feeds, twitter, etc. distract them. When you need to buckle down you shut it off.
KR: I use those tools to collaborate with my colleagues who aren't physically proximate.
What different tools get you through the day?
BV: Used to think design was a hobby and took business seriously.
[moving to the other panel]
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