Make stuff you need

@almonk

Tuesday, 10 September 13

Designer at GoCardless, B2B payments company



Founded 2011, now UK’s largest Direct Debit bureau



Founded 2011, now UK’s largest Direct Debit bureau

Launching in Europe soon


(Do side projects)


Why do a side project?

How to realise your ideas.


Learn new skills with no pressure

Improve your business skills

Learn about press/PR

Meet new people

and finally...


EMBRACE

Indirect benefits can be huge.


failure / success

I prefer the term...


Make something you need and you’ll make it

Know what you’re making


A tube status appProject #1


Too much functionality, not enough focusTuesday, 10 September 13

Prototyped in HTML first

Learnt rubymotion over a week

Collab design with Simon Whybray

Shipped 2 weeks from idea


What happened?

Featured in the Metro newspaper.

#2 in AppStore.

15,000+ downloads.

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http://getlin.es/designandbanter

http://getlin.es/designandbanter

A concept sharing appProject #2


What?

Show off site designs

Get them out of email & into browser

As little ‘workflow’ as possible


Prototyped in Wordpress first

Learnt Ruby & Rails over a month

Shipped 2 weeks from idea


What happened?

3,000 users (5% paying)

Used by Adobe, Facebook, Ideo

11,000+ projects

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To sum up...


To sum up...



Embrace your fuccesses


@almonk


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