Aus der Reihe: Tastenkombinationen, die ich ständig im echten Leben anwenden möchte.
The woman behind the checkout
What Happened
I put my sandwich and the can of coke onto the checkout. It was about five thirty and already dark outside – the shop was almost empty, but the streets were filled with people. The woman behind the checkout said Hi and scanned the sandwich. I smiled, and then she asked, How are you today? I did not expect that. So I kept smiling and mumbled something like Good and asked her how she was. She looked exhausted but happy and told me that she only had half an hour left at work. She scanned the coke: So, what are your plans for tonight then?
What an embarrasing question, regarding the fact that I never do anything at all in the evenings, not even on Saturdays. It was Saturday. I said that I was very tired and would probably just go home and watch a movie. She said she would do the same, as she was so exhausted from work. I smiled and said goodbye, and then I left. I always do that like I was in a hurry, because I don’t want the customer behind me to wait any longer in a sitation in which I could make everything easier by just moving a bit quicker. I looked at the security guy on the door and rushed through it onto the street.
What should have happened next
While walking down the busy street, I thought about what just happened and realized that in my whole life, I never had exchanged that many words with a person behind a checkout. Everything was so obvious now. I tourned around, walked quickly back to the shop, passed the security guy but did not look at him, went straight to the chewing gum shelve (it would have been weird if I had walked straight to the checkout without anything that actually had to be checked out), got the cheapest pack of gum and stepped in front of the checkout.
I smiled and said that I forgot to buy chewing gum, and then I was very, very brave and asked her what she was thinking of going out for a drink after she finishes work, not in a date-kind-of-way as I really wasn’t interested in that girl in a date-kind-of-way, but just in a we-don’t-have-to-spend-the-evening-alone-way, as we both knew that neither she nor me had plans for tonight and we could just spend the evening together. She was suprised I guess. And I was suddenly very, very scared. And then she said Yes, and I smiled again, and picked her up at six in front of the shop, and we went out for a drink, and we had a nice chat and then we said goodbye and went home with a happy feeling inside ourselves, and we were glad having realized that humans are not just people who live their own lives in their own way, but everyone actually is very close to each other, it just dosn’t feel that natural at first.
This is just a test #17385. Heute gelernt: Buchstaben zeichnen zu wollen und nicht zu wissen, wie das Ganze ungefähr aussehen soll, und deshalb einfach alles wild zusammen zu mixen, funktioniert irgendwie nur so mittelgut. Habe aber auch schon Schlimmeres gemacht.
Why Designers Are Time Travellers
Just like last year, Colly created a paper for this year’s New Adventures conference, containing interviews with the speakers and general information. I was asked to contribute an illustration, which I did without hesitation! Find some pictures right behind this link. LINK:
New Adventures in Web Design, 2012
Gestern fand die 2. New Adventures Konferenz in Nottingham statt, und weil ich gerade dort bin und glücklicherweise bei Erskine arbeite, hatte ich die gute Gelegenheit, dabei zu sein. Ich weiß nicht, was ich drüber schreiben soll, außer, dass es wirklich gut, interessant und inspirierend war.
Und weil ich wirklich nicht weiß, wie ich das alles verpacken soll: Wartet auf morgen, da kommt noch ein kleines Schmankerl. Die besten Talks kamen meiner Meinung nach von: Dan Mall, wegen seiner Idee der „Invisible Deliverables“; Trent Walton, der betonte, dass Design immer auch Müll mit sich bringt; und von Frank Chimero, der Dinge zu verknüpfen weiß und dessen Talk ich nicht in drei Worte quetschen kann.
Hier ein paar Buzzwords, die ich während der Konferenz in meinen Notizblock tippte:
Humans are bigger than algorithms ● make waste ● the client is part of your team ● Invisible Deliverables ● choose your audience and speak to them ● personal branding ● benefit ● put things on the wall ● make your work tactile ● try things and make a mess ● start over ● process of learning ● designers at startups ● shower/sleep/breathe ● ugly can be good, too ● good design moves ● design is the break point.
Januar 2012: Kurze Bestandsaufnahme seiner selbst.
