Recommended Resources

Spring 2018 • De Angela L. Duff • Tuesdays • De Angela L. Duff • 5:30 - 9:10 PM • 2MTC MAGNET 811

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Career Preparation

NYU Resources

• Wasserman Center

• Leslie Elab

Miscellaneous

• AIGA Professional Resources

• Pew Resarch

• Get A Design Job! by RitaSue Siegel

• How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy

Job Boards

• Glass Door

• Uncubed

• We Work Remotely

• AIGA Design Jobs

• Creative Applications

• Krop

• Coroflot

• Creative Hotlist

Salary Negotiation

• Fealess Negotiating by Michael C. Donaldson

• Lean In for Graduates by Sheryl Sanders

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

• How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Freelance

• The Business Side of Creativity: The Complete Guide to Running a Small Graphics Design or Communications Business by Cameron Foote

• Docracy

  • Andy Clarke's Contract Killer 3

  • Development Service Contract

• AIGA Standard Service Agreement

• smashing magazine: The Collective Legal Guide for Designers

• Dealing with Clients who refuse to pay

• CSS Kill Switch

• Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourselfby Daniel Pink

Entrepreneurship

• The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber

• Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.

Networking

• Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi

Branding

• Zag: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands by Marty Neumeier

Crowdsource Funding

• Kickstarter

• Indiegogo

• PledgeMusic

• GoFundMe

Creativity

• Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way by Steven Pressfield

• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield (If you like Do The Work by Steven Pressfield, which is pretty much a distillation of the principles in The War of Art, also by Steven Pressfield, I highly suggest you acquire this one as well.)

Lifestyle Design

• The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated by Timothy Ferriss

• Anything You Want by Derek Sivers

• How To Stop Worrying & Start Living by Dale Carnegie

• The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World by Chris Guillebeau

Documentation & Presentation

Presentations

• Issu

• Slideshare

• Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (2nd Edition) by Garr Reynolds

Public Speaking

• Speaking.io

• Ignite

• Pecha Kucha

• Ted Talks

• EYEO Festival

• The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

• Dale Carnegie

• Toastmasters

Awards

• Adobe Design Achievement Awards

Making

• Etsy

Sound

• Bandcamp

• SoundCloud

• TopSpinMedia

Exhibition & Promotion

• Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon

Ideation / Brainstorming

Idea Generation

• Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon

• Everything is a Remix

Design

• Graphic Design: The New Basics by Ellen Lupton

• Thinking with Type

• Lessons in Typography by Jim Krause

• Sitemaps

  • http://quirktools.com (smaps)

• Wireframes / Schematics

  • Illustrator

  • OmniGraffle

  • Moqups

  • Quirktools (wires)

  • Balsamiq

    • mockupstogo.net

  • UX Pin's The Guide To Wireframing

  • How to Read a Wireframe

  • Flickr: I ♥ Wireframes

  • Flickr: A collection of wireframes

  • Web Without Words

  • Wireframe Showcase

  • Wireframes Magazine

  • An argument for sketched sitemaps and wireframes/schematics

Recommended Audio Podcasts

• Revision Path Maurice Cherry interviews designers, developers, and other creators of color weekly.

• The Tim Ferriss Show Tim Ferriss deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, sports, business, art, etc.) to extract the tactics, tools, and routines you can use. This includes favorite books, morning routines, exercise habits, time-management tricks, and much more.

  • I suggest listening to Derek Sivers, Debbie Millman, and David Heinemeier Hansson

• Unmistakeable Creative Srini Rao interviews instigators, rebels, and people with a pathological inability to accept the status quo.

• How I Built This

• State of the Art

• StartUp Podcast StartUp is a podcast series about what it’s really like to get a business off the ground.

  • In Season 1, Alex Blumberg told the story of launching this business, Gimlet Media, a podcast network.

  • In Season 2, Lisa Chow joined Alex to follow an entirely new company: a company called Dating Ring, founded by two women in their 20s, outsiders in the male-dominated world of Silicon Valley.

  • In Season 3, rather than following one company over many episodes, they are telling stories about many companies that all have something in common: their companies are stuck, and they know they need to make a big change.

Time Management & Productivity Resources

Hope these resources help. They've helped me, but the secret is discipline, focus, and prioritizing (which requires not doing something else). No system is a magic cure. A system only works if you use it daily.

• Personal Kanban

• RescueTime

• Zapier

The Now Habit

• The Now Habit by Neil Fiore

• Neil Fiore’s Unschedule on lifeclever.com

• Neil Fiore’s Sample Unschedule (I suggest a modified version of this as we will discuss

Getting Things Done (GTD) is more complicated but I use a lot of the techniques in conjunction with Personal Kanban.

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

• 43 Folders (All things GTD by Merlin Mann)

• Productive Talk Compilation: 8-episode audio podcast with GTD’s David Allen

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Time Warrior

• Time Warrior: How to defeat procrastination, people-pleasing, self-doubt, over-commitment, broken promises and chaos by Steven Chandler

Eat That Frog!

• Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy

Personal Kanban

• Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry

The Pomodoro Technique

• Pomodoro Technique Illustrated: Can You Focus - Really Focus - for 25 Minutes? by Staffan Noteberg

• pomodorotechnique.com

• 5 Pomodoro Timer Extensions For Google Chrome

• PomodoroFox

• The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz

Recommended Writing Resources

• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by Strunk and White

• The Mac is Not a Typewriter by Robin Williams

• Copywriting: Successful Writing for Design, Advertising and Marketing by Mark Shaw