Portable Presents: Product Design

Overview

Quick pop quiz! 1. Who likes and uses the internet? 2. Who would call themselves creative (out loud or not)? 3. Who would like a rewarding career path that combines these two? Bonus round – who plays Fruit Ninja? If these questions piqued your interest in a ‘yes-sir-I-am-a-creative-internet-user-trying-to-launch-my-career-whilst-also-playing-addictive-iPhone-games’ manner then Portable Designs has heard about you.

Bringing together three intensely creative individuals for a conversation about “making it” in a very 21^st century career path, Portable has teamed up with The Edge and the Asia Pacific Design Library to present Product Design 2012. In a series that will run throughout the year, the first event features talks on developing online and international content by Leni Mayo, Shainiel Deo and Simon Goodrich.

The creative-internet powerhouse of a world spans a large spectrum, so to maintain some balance Portable’s speakers have been chosen from opposite ends. Leni Mayo knows how to recognize talent from afar and has invested in many very successful sites like 99 designs, whereas Shainiel Deo has been a successful game designer for over 10 years and is no CEO of Half Brick Studios (he made Fruit Ninja! See, it was relevant). Concluding the threesome is Simon Goodrich, co-founder of Portable.

With this trio’s combined talent, power and knowledge of the industry, you can be sure you’ll walk away feeling that little bit more confident in developing, designing and launching that patent-able idea you have at the back of your mind.