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Home» Soft Skills » How To Be More Creative

How To Be More Creative

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Matthew Magain in Soft Skills, Tutorial - 4 Comments
A light bulb represents creativity—what else!

Last week I had the privilege of presenting on the topic of creativity at the Intranets2013 conference in Sydney, and delivering some workshops on how to incorporate sketching into your user experience process.

Intranets are fast becoming a crucial business tool for medium and large organisations, with their own unique challenges, both technical and at the organisational level. The Step Two Designs folks behind the conference did a fantastic job, and it was a real honour to be invited to speak. Check out some of the other presentations, which are starting to appear online.

I’ve included the slides from my talk below. They didn’t make a lot of sense on their own, and the session wasn’t recorded, so I’ve re-recorded an audio track to go with them.

In addition to my presentation, I ran a full day workshop after the conference, which was great fun, and received some very flattering feedback from some of the attendees (there are few things in this world as rewarding as seeing a student you’ve taught understand, apply and evangelise something you’ve taught them!).

This was really encouraging for me personally, and has motivated us to take this format and make it available in a digital form in some capacity. Watch this space for more news on that!

I’d love to hear what techniques you use to be more creative, either in the workplace or on a personal level. Share them in the comments!

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About the author: Matthew Magain


Matthew Magain (@mattymcg) is passionate about communicating information using visuals, and teaching others to do the same. A freelance user experience consultant, he helps clients communicate to their customers and to each other, through the use of sketching, design, and illustration. His clients have included World Vision, AustralianSuper, and the Australian Labor Party.

Matthew has won a Mobie award, has been featured in several books, and has presented at conferences in Australia and overseas. He was a co-founder of UX Mastery, an online resource for aspiring user experience designers, where he shares his insights and experiences from over 10 years of designing web and mobile apps. He spends his spare time illustrating children’s books.

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4 comments on “How To Be More Creative”

  1. Dajobi says:
    May 24, 2013 at 6:23 pm

    Like a pebble skimming the water. Touching the subject with ever deeper points of contact. Nice work, love the thinking and inspires direction.

    @dajobi

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    • Matthew Magain Matthew Magain says:
      May 26, 2013 at 2:39 pm

      Thanks for your poetic compliment, Dajobi!

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  2. Irith says:
    October 6, 2016 at 11:15 am

    Hey Matt, think I’m missing something… can’t find your ‘re-recorded audio track’ for these slides…. ?

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    • Matthew Magain Matthew Magain says:
      October 6, 2016 at 1:39 pm

      Hey Irith. This presentation was originally hosted on slideshare, which is a platform that used to allow audio recordings synced to a slide deck. They removed that functionality a couple of years ago, sadly. I don’t know what all the cool kids are using to host presentations with audio tracks these days …

      Reply

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