Design Tips...for your designs & yourself.

• Listen, Engage, Inspire, Build, Mobilize.
• Design for interaction, conversation, and customization. 
• Think outside of the box.
• Attention is the new scarcity, use your audience wisely.
• Tell your story and stand for something.
• Make yourself finable.
• Suprise people when they least expect it.
• Creativity no longer means a clever message, it's about utility.
• Develop alliances. You can't do everything yourself.
• Keep yourself fresh and up to date.
• Experiment, experiment, experiment...
• Go forth and create.

(Tips taken from the AAF-Kansas City Career Conference)