Tag Archives: productivity
Design by caffeine and music
I’ve been thinking a lot about what gets me in the ‘creativity zone’ lately as I prepare for a person project that is going to require a lot of this type of focus. I think we all probably have our essential requirements small or large for getting into that place where everything can flow and I am no exception.
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The importance of doing
Think right now about how many things you have ‘to do’. Is it a long list? What about the things not on the list that you ‘always mean to get to’… that’s getting quite a list isn’t it now? Just like tomorrow never comes and kettles never boil when watched, the only way to approach things should be ‘what can I do now’ not ‘when can I do it’.
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Keeping your spark alive with personal work
This web world can be a hard one to work in, you as a designer can easily loose inspiration after the 10th blue website or 20th drop shadow rounded box and lets not get started on how demoralising the 30th gradient can be. When I started out it was all about personal projects, yes I studied software engineering and art but back then there were no web courses. The only way to learn these new languages was to work on personal projects and experiment – it was a great time when possibilities were explored and inspiration flowed.
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