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Having breakfast with over 700 “nerds” and “technology executives” is not only nourishing for the stomach but also for the brain. When Steven Wozniak appeared at the keynote at this mornings Tech-working breakfast in Waterloo you can be assured that everyone left feeling full of delicious advice.

Mr Wozniak (aka “The Woz”) offered up a buffet of advice on design,  and technology. Here’s  a summary of a few tips that I picked up.

• Build products that behave and interact in a way that is intuitive by the way we move, touch and feel.
• Try not to fit technology into a product because it exists – instead focus on making the experience intuitive (make it great)
• Where do you get the best design ideas from?  Parachute into a project and try to re-engineer it.  Try to put yourself in the shoes of a person that has been parachuted into how computers work today with out having any prior knowledge or experience to the technology.  Are the way things are done really that efficient?
• Don’t assume the way you’ve done it before is the best
• Be an engineer that is also an artist – just make it beautiful!