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Creative Culture: Human-Centered Interaction, Design, & Inspiration
Mobile First? In reality, it's humans first. The first edition of Justin Dauer's 2017 book Cultivating a Creative Culture was written around a core empathy, humility, and creativity at the office—permeating how we treat one another, support one another, and the collective influence upon how we create. It's upon that last notion, "how we create," where this second edition further focuses on the parallels between "making" and "interacting.” Process and practice. Design and culture. We cannot preach outwardly about empathy for those we're designing for if as designers, researchers, architects, developers (and on and on) we're not supporting each other. The notion of being human-centered has an innate synergy between design process (and ultimate product) and office culture (and empathetic interactions). To the benefit of both dynamics, those touch points are identifiable and exploitable. Creating with compassion in an environment fueled by compassion means we never lose sight of what it's all people. Beyond functioning in this manner because "it's the right thing to do," quality of design work, loyalty internally (team) and externally (users), and product innovation are all benefits to reap.Join Justin as he demonstrates how putting humans first - in our design process and in the workplace - yields a successful end product and an endlessfountain of inspiration. With a new foreword by Steve Portigal, author of "Doorbells, Danger, and Dead User Research War Stories," and "Interviewing How to Uncover Compelling Insights."
- GenresDesign
160 pages, Hardcover
Published June 23, 2020
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About the author
Justin Dauer
3 books6 followersDenim. Coffee. Tattoos. Design. These are nouns with two syllables. They also summarize a man with a beard with (a semblance of) a plan who values the gift of fatherhood above all else.
He graduated the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in Visual Communications at a time when the job title “Web Designer” was an ethereal mystery to our moms and dads. The implications of graphic design upon the digital world captured his fascination; self-teaching code and development, he sought to marry visual communications with a raw and unshaped Internet. Moving to the East Cost at 21 and taking a job as the first web designer for the now defunct Interface Monthly Magazine in Portland, Maine, he had found his calling: the infusion of design with the digital landscape.
Returning to Chicago a couple years later and with Josef Müller-Brockmann and user advocacy claiming equal parts of his creative heart, he’s since crafted digital experiences for clients like Sony, Chase, SRAM, IBM, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Throughout his creative journey and with bloodshot tunnel vision, he’s had the innate need to take on roles that were projects; teams to be built, processes to be defined, practices to be championed.
He’s drawn from these career’s experiences across agency side, client side, product-side, and pure tech toward fostering healthy, dynamic, supportive creative cultures. The concept of putting humans first – in both design and workplace – keenly informs his design philosophy and creative mindset. Human-centered connection must be at the core of our design process as well as the cultural interactions at the office. It’s this vision that fueled both editions of his first book, Creative Culture, guided his opening keynote at the 2018 MidwestUX Conference, and underpins his role as the Vice President of Human-Centered Design and Development at bswift.
His personal creative outlet is pseudoroom design (re: the site you're currently on). Pixel design as a creative outlet, and the inherent constraints of the medium, has long been near and dear to his heart. He founded The Dead Pixel Society with some of the world's best icon designers to carry on that tradition.
He graduated the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in Visual Communications at a time when the job title “Web Designer” was an ethereal mystery to our moms and dads. The implications of graphic design upon the digital world captured his fascination; self-teaching code and development, he sought to marry visual communications with a raw and unshaped Internet. Moving to the East Cost at 21 and taking a job as the first web designer for the now defunct Interface Monthly Magazine in Portland, Maine, he had found his calling: the infusion of design with the digital landscape.
Returning to Chicago a couple years later and with Josef Müller-Brockmann and user advocacy claiming equal parts of his creative heart, he’s since crafted digital experiences for clients like Sony, Chase, SRAM, IBM, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Throughout his creative journey and with bloodshot tunnel vision, he’s had the innate need to take on roles that were projects; teams to be built, processes to be defined, practices to be championed.
He’s drawn from these career’s experiences across agency side, client side, product-side, and pure tech toward fostering healthy, dynamic, supportive creative cultures. The concept of putting humans first – in both design and workplace – keenly informs his design philosophy and creative mindset. Human-centered connection must be at the core of our design process as well as the cultural interactions at the office. It’s this vision that fueled both editions of his first book, Creative Culture, guided his opening keynote at the 2018 MidwestUX Conference, and underpins his role as the Vice President of Human-Centered Design and Development at bswift.
His personal creative outlet is pseudoroom design (re: the site you're currently on). Pixel design as a creative outlet, and the inherent constraints of the medium, has long been near and dear to his heart. He founded The Dead Pixel Society with some of the world's best icon designers to carry on that tradition.
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October 27, 2020
I really enjoyed Cultivating a Creative Culture by Justin Dauer, so I was excited to see his follow-up Creative Culture: Human-Centered Interaction, Design & Inspiration! This book is perfect for this year because it’s all about Humans First!
I think often times in the business world we forget that our most important asset is People! How we create and what we create all comes from the culture and environment in which we work. This book talks about the compassion we need to have others while in the workplace. It really can make a huge difference internally when it comes to innovation and inspiration! So today, reach out to someone you work with and tell them good job! Or ask how you can collaborate on something new! Right now, more than ever, we all need to hear it!
I think often times in the business world we forget that our most important asset is People! How we create and what we create all comes from the culture and environment in which we work. This book talks about the compassion we need to have others while in the workplace. It really can make a huge difference internally when it comes to innovation and inspiration! So today, reach out to someone you work with and tell them good job! Or ask how you can collaborate on something new! Right now, more than ever, we all need to hear it!
September 8, 2023
A few great concepts, like having a planned day one, or fika, or transparency in how an agency works. Some mentions of designers and the design process at ideo and one other place. Good ideas, and an easy read. Luckily it’s short.
August 23, 2020
Well-written, unique, smart, insightful, & you can really tell that Justin Dauer knows the subject matter inside & out.
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