Designers can’t help themselves. We are, by nature, perfectionists. We create, then throw away. We create again, tweak continuously, and fine-tune a design indefinitely. Why can we not stop ourselves? Time passes us by, missing deadlines. In turn, developers anxiously wait for us to finish, so that they can work off of something that has been solidified. During this session, you will learn strategies that will push your design to that "good enough" stage, so you will know “when to say when” and move from designing interfaces to developing them. (Posted from speech of same name given at the Big Design Conference, June 1, 2012)

1. pencils
down
stop designing & start developing
http://bit.ly/J7WozH

2. sat
test
sucked
http://goo.gl/NBjmn

3. no one
defines
done
for
me http://goo.gl/WtF6C

4. TODAY
IS NO
DIFFERENT
http://goo.gl/zhUXC

5. on the
OTHER
hand
http://goo.gl/AexR5

6. conflicted
needed
help
http://goo.gl/hqeD9

7. oppor
tunity
http://goo.gl/MUnRm

9. share
my FINDINGS
http://goo.gl/Bp9rf

10. why hard
why good
grounding
BEGINNING
momentum
reviews
finish
debrief

11. why is
done
so hard?
http://goo.gl/wTz5B

12. DOES
DONE
EXIST?
http://goo.gl/acDde

13. “
it's not
done
until it's
done.
http://goo.gl/0tmXn

14. perfectionism
http://goo.gl/ybdv1

15. http://goo.gl/wKh6S

17. GREAT
EXPECT
ATIONS
http://goo.gl/lndJn

18. diverging
mediums,
devices,
displays
http://goo.gl/ABAAO

19. http://bit.ly/fr8hbU

20. WHY IT'S
GOOD
TO BE DONE
http://goo.gl/wTz5B

21. new phases,
projects,
products,
clients,
teammates
http://goo.gl/Fz8K7

22. freelancing, training, startups,
new jobs, new careers
http://goo.gl/NBZvY

23. reading+
writing+
drawing+
speaking+ http://goo.gl/k3ILg

24. exercise
hobbies
travel
family
http://goo.gl/L5xHS

25. sleep
http://goo.gl/09vG7

26. sleep
work
other
24 hours

27. Getting
Grounded
Getting
Started
Creating
Momentum
http://goo.gl/wTz5B

28. get
over
your
self

29. style
guides.
patterns.
leverage.
http://goo.gl/9wjVb

30. front
load
http://goo.gl/nYwWr

31. cost of thrashing over time
$$$
early
late

32. trans
parency
http://goo.gl/6XbXl

33. minimize cave work
http://goo.gl/ueCuW

34. team
vs.
me

35. low
hanging
fruit
http://goo.gl/Buzaw

36. SPEED
sketching
keynote kung fu
screenshots
balsamiq
paper53
http://goo.gl/za6Hu

37. focus
time
http://goo.gl/Buzaw

39. REVIEWS+
REVISIONS
http://goo.gl/wTz5B

40. narratives
VS. DELIVERABLES
http://goo.gl/W2ibS

41. CRITIQUES
vs. feedback
http://goo.gl/ysXpJ

42. reflection
before
reaction
http://goo.gl/W2ibS

43. refine
review
revise
repeat
RELEASE

44. go
time?
http://goo.gl/wTz5B

45. The Law of Diminishing Tweaks
designer
satisfaction
wasted
cycles
pencils
down
point
client
time

46. POST
RELEASE
THERAPY
http://goo.gl/hqeD9

47. everything
is a hack
the first
release of
anything
ever made
stunk.
http://goo.gl/CJq0l

48. my work quality over time
(progress not perfection)
1
2
3
4
5
6

49. Facing a sea of infinity, it's easy
to despair, sure that you will
never reach dry land, never have
the sense of accomplishment of
saying, "I'm done." At the same
time, to be finished, done,
complete--this is a bit like being
dead. The silence and the
feeling that maybe that's all.
…the challenge is to level set, to
be comfortable with the
undone, with the cycle of never-
ending…Today, we're never
finished, and that's okay.
- Seth Godin
http://goo.gl/VtNAX

50. ERICA BURNETT
STEPHEN ANDERSON
TSCOTT STROMBERG
JEREMY JOHNSON
GARRETT DIMON
MARK KRAEMER
+1
Marcelo Somers
Austin Walker
nathan smith
adam polansky
brian sullivan
tracey nolte
dustin askins
travis isaacs

51. @hursman
http://bit.ly/J7WozH