The Creativity (R)Evolution - UX Week 2014

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Denise R. Jacobs UX Week San Francisco, CA 12 September 2014 The Creativity (R)Evolution

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There's a movement brewing built upon leveraging the transformative power of creativity to help us work and create better so that we can produce work infused with meaning. Discover how by instilling tiny habits to cultivate your creative spark, and finally, fomenting creative collaboration based on the tenets of improv and open spaces, you can take the spark of Creativity (R)Evolution and use it as the impetus to push you, your teams, and your companies to create Betterness.

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  • 1. The Creativity (R)EvolutionDenise R. JacobsUX WeekSan Francisco, CA12 September 2014

2. SQUEEEEEE!!!!! 3. @denisejacobs#uxweek#creativityrevolution 4. Get the slides:bit.ly/uxweek-cr 5. When 1 1 6. Darwins wing manhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/drthompson/3689420515/ 7. A Sneeze of laughterhttp://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/girls-laughing-uganda-pod/ 8. Course changePhoto: Denise Jacobs 9. Today. Now. 10. Conferences = potential for changehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/toprankblog/2280204274/ 11. Ideas are sparkedhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/sjliew/1286367571/ 12. New social networks 13. The initial excitement about the newhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ableman/543078380/ 14. Taken over by old habitshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/irrezolut/2311904560/ 15. How to take it home? Sustain it? Continue it?http://www.flickr.com/photos/debord/4932655275/ 16. Photo by Derek KearneyAbout me 17. The Creative Dose.com 18. is keyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/designandtechnologydepartment/4771136128/ 19. Im not the only one who thinks sohttp://business.time.com/2013/04/26/the-time-creativity-poll/ 20. A Creativity (R)Evolution! 21. All gatherings are opportunitieshttps://www.flickr.com/photos/stella12/7045899425 22. Nurture the Creative Sparkhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cdoublew/2668216943/ 23. The Roots of (R)Evolution 24. Creative? Me! Yes!http://www.flickr.com/photos/barretthall/3036598475/ &http://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/3135103537/ 25. Creative? Child, please 26. Creative? Um, maybe? 27. Creativity is all about makingconnections and seeing patterns.Bruce Nussbaum, Creativity Intelligence 28. What is the creative spark?http://www.flickr.com/photos/ogil/1507585665/ 29. Everyone has ithttp://www.flickr.com/photos/kaptainkobold/4812035672/ 30. Umair Haquehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/nextconference/3504568830/ 31. The sum total of human effort can addup to not merely more, but to Better.Umair Haque, Betterness: Economics for Humans 32. Betterness? Betterness!! 33. (R)Evolution Revolutionhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/stargardener/7037360553/ 34. The Foundation 35. Our role model: the coral polyphttp://www.flickr.com/photos/drthompson/3689420515/ 36. Builds rich environmentshttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Coral_Reef.jpg 37. Creates new land formshttp://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/23300000/Coral-Reef-Torres-Strait-Island-australia-23340592-1600-1200.jpg 38. Tiny Habitshttp://tinyhabits.com/ 39. The structurehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/anetq/8543067943/ 40. 2 modifications1. In the positive2. Present tense 41. Anchor to a current habithttp://www.flickr.com/photos/fotobydave/333883245/ 42. Congratulate yourselfhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/clappstar/6297835482/ 43. Feel Good = Neurosciencehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cblue98/7254347346/ 44. Big resultshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/anetq/8543069503/ 45. From Spark to Flame 46. Two levelshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/fragmented/2734290118/ 47. The Personal 48. Are you a terrorist to yourself?http://www.flickr.com/photos/koomatuomio/4182554398/ 49. Obsessing about preventing badthings from happening also preventsgood things from happening, orsometimes prevents anything fromhappening at all.Scott Berkun, The Year Without Pants 50. You are the gatewayhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/eschipul/4396790244/ 51. Its all about you being self-fulhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/siutou_amy/2306794554/ 52. Self-ful-nessCaring for your own welfare so that youare able to care for the welfare ofothers. 53. The Oxygen Mask Theory 54. Love what you do. Do what you love.http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmscottimd/616642026/ 55. The only way to be truly satisfied is todo what you believe is great work. Theonly way to do great work is to lovewhat you do.Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford Commencement speech 56. By nurturing your own sparkhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/aguslepe/5512044294/ 57. Youll begin to open uphttp://www.flickr.com/photos/rvm_71/5011353192/ 58. And then magic happens 59. Self-ful transformshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/kara_allyson/5358611092/ 60. To Self-lesshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mazgrp/2050810720/ 61. One of the best ways to make yourselfhappy is to make other people happy.One of the best ways to make otherpeople happy is to be happy yourself.Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project 62. How?http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyefruit/1097398/ 63. Recognize your brilliancehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jonathan_hamner/3386076488/ 64. DO NOT focus on your weaknesseshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jonathan_hamner/3386076488/ 65. You will only improve10-15 %(and it will be painful)Tom Rath, Strengths Finder 2.0 66. Enjoy + Good at + Feeling Empoweredhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/3310336516/ 67. = Empowered Playhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/anieto2k/8216666102/ 68. aka = Flow 69. R-E-S-P-E-C-T 70. Shift into the habits you want to develophttp://www.flickr.com/photos/rene_ehrhardt/2762573549/ 71. The Case of the Reluctant Speaker 72. Who, me? Really? SureAmanda Dameron, upon being invited to keynote UX Week 73. Me -- a speaker ? Oh, no.Jenna Foreman, upon being asked if she was a speaker at UXWeek 74. Youre about to be @Boonerang-ed 75. Know your goals, like JustinPhoto: Julian Harty 76. Homework: Write a talk descriptionThink of several topics you are abad-ass in. Write up 1-2 talkdescriptions based on yourinterests and expertise.Share them with your partner in onemonth. 77. Homework: Tiny Habits to Nurture the SparkThink of 1-2 tiny habits you will do tonurture the sparks ignited at thisconference. 78. Check in date:10 October 2014 79. Doing this is the first step 80. Recognize & support your sparkhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cdoublew/2663137942/ 81. This is about something greaterhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/mangee/195050727/ 82. Your attitude is a contagion 83. Happiness is contagiousEach happy friendincreased an individual'sprobability of beinghappy by 9 percent.Even perfect strangersthree degrees ofseparation awayfriends of friends offriendsexerted asignificant upliftinginfluenceUnhappy people at thecenter of the networkare more likely thanthose at the periphery tobecome happy in thefuture.http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-10/ff_christakis?currentPage=all 84. Your change will spread beyond youhttp://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles19/1330505/projects/5455539/30cbf8c45952cdcf360ef545b1dcaba9.jpg 85. The Social 86. We need to get our group onPhoto: Denise Jacobs 87. Mo people, mo creativityhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/international-festival/3019543830/ 88. Building 20 at MIThttp://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all 89. Escape your silohttp://www.flickr.com/photos/coffeemick/5106610165/ 90. Listen. No, really listenhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/theory/3193684632/ 91. Be the one that starts the processhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Coral_Reef.jpg 92. Be like Mollyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/janbrasna/112338913/ 93. Be the locus where ideas can mix & minglehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/7496803638/ 94. Getting people together is easy, buthaving a culture of getting them to begood at building upon each othersideas is hard.David Kelly, Founder of IDEO 95. Over lunch in 1994http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters,_Inc. 96. Monsters, Inc was born 97. Creativity is social.Instead (ofbrainstorming) you need magic circles,small teams of people who trust each other,are familiar with each other, and playtogether.Bruce Nussbaum, Creativity Intelligence 98. Improve with Improvhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/roel1943/5740295789/ 99. Start where you arehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/zen/3446600695/ 100. Accept the offer + fully commithttps://www.flickr.com/photos/mcgraths/3277839203 101. Use this structure 102. Make your partner(s) look goodhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/31246066@N04/4597640798/ 103. Play is how we invent andexperiment.Josh Clarke, The Web Gets Real, UX Week 104. Lets play! 105. Builds trusthttp://www.flickr.com/photos/wrote/2646295354/ 106. Collaborations get increasingly strongerhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/schipulites/5407946699/ 107. Photo: Denise JacobsEating my own dogfood: Improv class! 108. Homework: Tiny Habit of Creative CollaborationThink of 1-2 tiny habits you will doto cultivate a culture of creativecollaboration around you. 109. Check in date:10 November 2014 110. Viva La (R)Evolution! 111. Creative power to the people!http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickerbulb/53116195/ 112. This is about imagination, plusPhoto: Denise Jacobs 113. Personal fulfillment (aka Happiness)http://www.flickr.com/photos/pocait/2847866615/ 114. Team and company creating Betterness 115. Betterness can't happen if you'respending your life churning out toxicjunk. It can only happen when moremeaningful work is done.Umair Haque, Betterness: Economics for Humans 116. Bigger than just yourselfhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/7730492@N03/4958540694/ 117. Its about You + Othershttp://www.flickr.com/photos/7730492@N03/4957946157/ 118. Eudaimonia = Human flourishinghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/bohman/174718774/ 119. Happiness is not just a moodits awork ethic..Happiness is actually theprecursor to success.Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage: The SevenPrinciples of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success andPerformance at Work 120. At the close of UX Week, with youhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/moqub/2745092532/ 121. Encourage the eco-system 122. Remember that we can create better together 123. We dont have to invent anything; itsalready all around us.Josh Clarke, The Web Gets Real, UX Week 124. We can evolve creativelyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/6005503875/ 125. Make the switchhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/joeathialy/3397362215/ 126. You have the power tomake theworld a better place to dwell.Amanda Dameron, Universal Design: Does it Matter? UXWeek 127. I am the lone nut dancing 128. Because I sincerely believe thishttp://www.flickr.com/photos/dougbelshaw/4168593521/ 129. that you want to see in the worldhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/20872388@N06/5572306965/ 130. And finallyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/27620885@N02/2609974180/ 131. CreativityRevolution.com 132. Want the slides? Get em!bit.ly/uxweek-cr 133. Connect!DeniseJacobs.com Sign up on my mailing list [email protected]/denisejacobsfacebook.com/denisejacobsdotcomslideshare.net/denisejacobsPhoto used with permission: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aarronwalter/4629078087/ 134. THE CREATIVE DOSEA Creativity + Innovation CollectiveWork Better. Create More. Create Betterness.Creative Thinking & Problem-solvingApplying an Innovation MindsetCreative CollaborationTeam Communication & CohesionTheCreativeDose.com@thecreativedoseUntitled by Americo Morales