I Like Doing New Things with Ryan Kelly
Today we’re talking to Ryan Kelly. Ryan is an artist specializing in interactive home furnishings and in this conversation he shares his journey from retail experience design to furniture design and all things in between that led to him connecting the dots to doing something he enjoys. You’ll hear about:
- How he became unhappy in his previous roles and learned to recognize signs of dissatisfaction
- Sunday scaries
- How your previous skills come into play whenever you’re trying a new direction
- Applying principles of trying things, failing fast and not being afraid to pivot in your career journey
- How he took the time to understand himself, think, and make lists to determine what worked and what didn’t work
- How rebelling against the things that you’re unhappy with holds important clues
- How he was searching for opportunity with more artistic and personal expression and one that would also bring the community together
- There’s creativity inside everyone of us!
Ryan Kelly is an artist specializing in interactive home furnishings. He came, most recently, from a decade-long career in user experience design where he worked on consumer, business, and developer products. Before that he studied and design retail consumer experiences and his first job ever was refereeing kindergarten soccer games.
Connect with Ryan at www.humfurniture.com and instagram.com/humfurn or by stopping by his workshop in Englewood, CO.
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Xo, Baiba
Here’s the book Ryan mentioned
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
