Let's fix things 22 - The future of design talent (w/ Dave Benach of Spark Talent)
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On this show, Dave Benach joins Guus and Joe. Dave runs Spark Talent, a scouting and recruitment agency. His team focuses on design talent, and Dave previously led recruiting at frog design. The trio discuss skills designers, especially students, should have entering the work force now, and in the next 5 years.
The group starts out recapping the Apple and Microsoft events from a design perspective, offering insights on Microsoft\'s unique interactions with the "dial" device on Surface and what it could mean for physical and digital interaction. With Apple, the discussion turns to AI services and Apple being best positioned from a hardware POV and Service design POV to capture the market - although their service itself lacks muster.
The main topic looks at the discipline of digital design and how that has changed in the last 20-30 years. The discussion includes:
- what students should be learning now to prepare them for a career in design
- How school are educating future designers
- What was important before, what is important now, what will be important in 5-10 years
- Education of tools and methods - "History is littered with the corpses of depreciated technologies."
- Execution in design becoming a commodity and design leveling itself up the organization
- A framework for designer to find their interests and awareness on what makes them excited
- Spark Talent on Twitter https://twitter.com/sparktalentbv
- Spark Talent on the Web http://www.sparktalent.co/
- Microsoft Surface dial https://www.cnet.com/news/microsofts-surface-godfather-panos-panay-hints-that-dial-is-just-the-start/