The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 21 with User Experience Designer Walé Ogundipe
2014.09.01 by Prescott Perez-Fox
Walé Ogundipe (@kopasetik) is a user experience designer who has worked in a variety of creative professions including the music industry, broadcasting, marketing, film & video, and now online and mobile application development. Lately, he’s been involved in several hackathons and embraced the philosophies if fast iteration and design sprints towards building apps for web and mobile.
In this conversation, we discuss how Walé arrived in User Experience, the point of view that a UX design takes when approaching a problem, and some books that we should all read for a better understanding of business and design.
Show Notes & Links
- Experience Design
- Service Design
- Zaks Building Blocks; Not Lego
- “The Radio Voice”
- Walé worked at Mapflix
- Walé learned about distributed teams from co-workers who move frequently
- TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon
- The Busy Creator Podcast Bonus Episode (July 2014)
- HiFi-Liter (née Kioto), currently a Chrome extension
- The Evernote API
- API, a definition
- Uses for Hi-Fi Lighter include journalists, academics, etc.
- Bibliography formatting: MLA style, APA style, etc.
- BuzzFeed fires writer for improper attribution
- C.Y.A.
- Andreesen Horowitz
- Origin of the phrase “Barbarians at The Gate”
- Sharks must keep moving to stay alive
- General Assembly
- Small Biz Dev Hackathon in Chicago
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Marcus Aurelius, the Philosopher-Emporer
- The Invisible Hand
- Baratunde Thurston
- Bono
- “Bite-size project”, aka Design Sprints, can be healthy within the design industry.
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- Fast Company on Hackathons
- Blake Stratton on The Busy Creator Podcast
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey
- Sears Hackathon
- The Onion
Tools
- HiFi-Liter
- OmniFocus
- Evernote
- Google Keep
- Action Method notebooks & methodology
- GitHub
Techniques
- Keep snippets of code/markup for yourself in Google Keep
- Keep your grocery list in Google Keep
- Only work with committed people
- Appreciate the busy season, and recover after
- Create an “idea box” from an empty tissue box
- Miniature check-ins with yourself (30min intervals) and with your team (120min intervals)
Habits
- Be in constant motion
- Put first things first
- Take a “cheat day” for other aspects of your life. Have time to relax.
Get The Episode
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