Joshua Singer and Abhinav Suri

The Birth of a Hacker Culture

When you think of a hacker, what do you think of? A man who breaks into your bank accounts? Someone who steals important documents? To programmers, though, it’s actually a compliment. The new definition of hacker is “a clever programmer.” And within San Antonio and the United States, there are too few of these clever hackers. How do we increase this number? By building a culture of hacking. Through hackathons, maker-fairs and side projects, we can build a culture of hacking that leads to innovation. In this talk, you’ll learn of the various efforts that are underway, as well as how you can be a part of the culture and become a hacker too!

Joshua Singer and Abhinav Suri

The Birth of a Hacker Culture

When you think of a hacker, what do you think of? A man who breaks into your bank accounts? Someone who steals important documents? To programmers, though, it’s actually a compliment. The new definition of hacker is “a clever programmer.” And within San Antonio and the United States, there are too few of these clever hackers. How do we increase this number? By building a culture of hacking. Through hackathons, maker-fairs and side projects, we can build a culture of hacking that leads to innovation. In this talk, you’ll learn of the various efforts that are underway, as well as how you can be a part of the culture and become a hacker too!

A photo of a photo. Here's for thinking outside of the box.

Dailyshoot Challenge: We all have some sort of hobby or favorite activity. Make a photo that shows something you enjoy doing. (via @azmichelle)

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Joshua Singer and Abhinav Suri

The Birth of a Hacker Culture

When you think of a hacker, what do you think of? A man who breaks into your bank accounts? Someone who steals important documents? To programmers, though, it’s actually a compliment. The new definition of hacker is “a clever programmer.” And within San Antonio and the United States, there are too few of these clever hackers. How do we increase this number? By building a culture of hacking. Through hackathons, maker-fairs and side projects, we can build a culture of hacking that leads to innovation. In this talk, you’ll learn of the various efforts that are underway, as well as how you can be a part of the culture and become a hacker too!

Design Thinking has a steady pulse of consistency and change.

Design Thinking requires the ability to move through a series of perceptual positions in a fluid movement from a specific local view towards a general global view.

Design Thinking needs a visual language to expresses the abstract (relationships, movement, change, etc) and the concrete (concepts, ideas, and actions).

Joshua Singer and Abhinav Suri

The Birth of a Hacker Culture

When you think of a hacker, what do you think of? A man who breaks into your bank accounts? Someone who steals important documents? To programmers, though, it’s actually a compliment. The new definition of hacker is “a clever programmer.” And within San Antonio and the United States, there are too few of these clever hackers. How do we increase this number? By building a culture of hacking. Through hackathons, maker-fairs and side projects, we can build a culture of hacking that leads to innovation. In this talk, you’ll learn of the various efforts that are underway, as well as how you can be a part of the culture and become a hacker too!

Joshua Singer and Abhinav Suri

The Birth of a Hacker Culture

When you think of a hacker, what do you think of? A man who breaks into your bank accounts? Someone who steals important documents? To programmers, though, it’s actually a compliment. The new definition of hacker is “a clever programmer.” And within San Antonio and the United States, there are too few of these clever hackers. How do we increase this number? By building a culture of hacking. Through hackathons, maker-fairs and side projects, we can build a culture of hacking that leads to innovation. In this talk, you’ll learn of the various efforts that are underway, as well as how you can be a part of the culture and become a hacker too!

Design Thinking is about 'concept formation' and 'concept joining' to create new symphonies of possibilities.

Originally posted on my blog at www.OneSquigglyLine.com

Joshua Singer and Abhinav Suri

The Birth of a Hacker Culture

When you think of a hacker, what do you think of? A man who breaks into your bank accounts? Someone who steals important documents? To programmers, though, it’s actually a compliment. The new definition of hacker is “a clever programmer.” And within San Antonio and the United States, there are too few of these clever hackers. How do we increase this number? By building a culture of hacking. Through hackathons, maker-fairs and side projects, we can build a culture of hacking that leads to innovation. In this talk, you’ll learn of the various efforts that are underway, as well as how you can be a part of the culture and become a hacker too!

Design Thinking often acts as a filter to possibilities that already exist.

Design Thinking is built upon rhythm that can change in tempo depending on the situation and circumstance.

Design Thinking works to create what is not there, yet.

Design Thinking has many flexible anchor points, in the form of concepts, that act as stabilizers throughout an on going process.

Design Thinking fights the tendency for us to freeze our thoughts into objects and instead offers a function to morph these into alternative geometric, organic, and random shapes.

Design Thinking is learning how to learn in order to move from through a variety of mental models.

Design Thinking is the redline that runs throughout our convergent and divergent operations.

Design Thinking breaks waves, pushes boundaries, and steps to new levels.

Design Thinking acknowledges that only context gives meaning and therefore it works to move through a variety of mental models in a process to find the most valuable match between model and context.

Joshua Singer and Abhinav Suri

The Birth of a Hacker Culture

When you think of a hacker, what do you think of? A man who breaks into your bank accounts? Someone who steals important documents? To programmers, though, it’s actually a compliment. The new definition of hacker is “a clever programmer.” And within San Antonio and the United States, there are too few of these clever hackers. How do we increase this number? By building a culture of hacking. Through hackathons, maker-fairs and side projects, we can build a culture of hacking that leads to innovation. In this talk, you’ll learn of the various efforts that are underway, as well as how you can be a part of the culture and become a hacker too!

Design Thinking uses key questions to bring the most meaningful 'deep structure' to the surface and into the open.

Design Thinking cries out for a verbal and visual dialogue.

Design Thinking splits the space of possibilities into areas of action and non-action.

Joshua Singer and Abhinav Suri

The Birth of a Hacker Culture

When you think of a hacker, what do you think of? A man who breaks into your bank accounts? Someone who steals important documents? To programmers, though, it’s actually a compliment. The new definition of hacker is “a clever programmer.” And within San Antonio and the United States, there are too few of these clever hackers. How do we increase this number? By building a culture of hacking. Through hackathons, maker-fairs and side projects, we can build a culture of hacking that leads to innovation. In this talk, you’ll learn of the various efforts that are underway, as well as how you can be a part of the culture and become a hacker too!

Joshua Singer and Abhinav Suri

The Birth of a Hacker Culture

When you think of a hacker, what do you think of? A man who breaks into your bank accounts? Someone who steals important documents? To programmers, though, it’s actually a compliment. The new definition of hacker is “a clever programmer.” And within San Antonio and the United States, there are too few of these clever hackers. How do we increase this number? By building a culture of hacking. Through hackathons, maker-fairs and side projects, we can build a culture of hacking that leads to innovation. In this talk, you’ll learn of the various efforts that are underway, as well as how you can be a part of the culture and become a hacker too!

Design Thinking is too important to be left to designers.

Victor Landa

Victor was born in San Antonio and raised on the border in both Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. In 1981,Victor landed a job as a news photographer for a CBS affiliate in Laredo, Texas. He has been a journalist ever since. During his 30-year, Victor has worked as a photographer, editor, reporter, producer, assignments editor, columnist, teacher, consultant, news anchor, and news director. In the early 1980's Victor crossed over into Spanish Television with KWEX-TV in San Antonio. He went on to be News Director at KVDA-TV. For 20 years he was a contributing columnist for the Express-News. He is owner Palabrero Communications and Alameda Media and Communications. He has been married for 32 years to Becky Landa and they have two children.

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Design Thinking plays the future back to us today.

Design Thinking can only be achieved through interaction and cooperation.

Design Thinking is often most obvious when it fails.

Design Thinking often can only expressed in a series of snap-shots that are taken of a constantly changing dynamic process.

Design Thinking acknowledges the possibilities that exist before anything becomes fixed and anchored in a process.

Design Thinking is best illustrated by the effects it produces.

Design Thinking calls on an individual to be a design leader, a design manager, and a designer.

Joshua Singer and Abhinav Suri

The Birth of a Hacker Culture

When you think of a hacker, what do you think of? A man who breaks into your bank accounts? Someone who steals important documents? To programmers, though, it’s actually a compliment. The new definition of hacker is “a clever programmer.” And within San Antonio and the United States, there are too few of these clever hackers. How do we increase this number? By building a culture of hacking. Through hackathons, maker-fairs and side projects, we can build a culture of hacking that leads to innovation. In this talk, you’ll learn of the various efforts that are underway, as well as how you can be a part of the culture and become a hacker too!

Joshua Singer and Abhinav Suri

The Birth of a Hacker Culture

When you think of a hacker, what do you think of? A man who breaks into your bank accounts? Someone who steals important documents? To programmers, though, it’s actually a compliment. The new definition of hacker is “a clever programmer.” And within San Antonio and the United States, there are too few of these clever hackers. How do we increase this number? By building a culture of hacking. Through hackathons, maker-fairs and side projects, we can build a culture of hacking that leads to innovation. In this talk, you’ll learn of the various efforts that are underway, as well as how you can be a part of the culture and become a hacker too!

Design Thinking acknowledges the need to end in order to start.

Joshua Singer and Abhinav Suri

The Birth of a Hacker Culture

When you think of a hacker, what do you think of? A man who breaks into your bank accounts? Someone who steals important documents? To programmers, though, it’s actually a compliment. The new definition of hacker is “a clever programmer.” And within San Antonio and the United States, there are too few of these clever hackers. How do we increase this number? By building a culture of hacking. Through hackathons, maker-fairs and side projects, we can build a culture of hacking that leads to innovation. In this talk, you’ll learn of the various efforts that are underway, as well as how you can be a part of the culture and become a hacker too!

Joshua Singer and Abhinav Suri

The Birth of a Hacker Culture

When you think of a hacker, what do you think of? A man who breaks into your bank accounts? Someone who steals important documents? To programmers, though, it’s actually a compliment. The new definition of hacker is “a clever programmer.” And within San Antonio and the United States, there are too few of these clever hackers. How do we increase this number? By building a culture of hacking. Through hackathons, maker-fairs and side projects, we can build a culture of hacking that leads to innovation. In this talk, you’ll learn of the various efforts that are underway, as well as how you can be a part of the culture and become a hacker too!