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The Hardest Thing to Unlearn Is the Habit That Still Works
About this post: The habits easiest to break are the ones clearly failing you. The hardest to question…
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Playing With Purpose: The Story That Only You Can Tell
Exercise 11 of 20 from the Playing With Purpose Student Edition. From Book 6: The Voice (Exercises in…
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Your First Version Isn’t a Failure — It’s a Filter
Your first version isn’t a failure — it’s a filter. The gap between version one and version two…
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CRAP, But Make It Color
Part 2 of the color theory series: how Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity apply to color the same…
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Color Is Three Things at Once
About this post: This is the first of three pieces on color. For twenty-five years I’ve watched design…
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How to Build (and Fix) Any Palette
Part 3 of the color theory series: a practical system for building and fixing any color palette, grounded…
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Playing With Purpose: The System Behind the Feeling
Playing With Purpose Exercise 9: Take an emotional response you can’t explain and reverse-engineer the structure behind it.…
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Playing With Purpose: The White Space Audit
Exercise 10 of 20 from the Playing With Purpose Student Edition. From Book 5: The Craft (Exercises in…
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Learning to See: The Skill Nobody Teaches You (That Changes Everything)
Learning to see is the skill nobody teaches. How sight becomes insight, and why it changes everything.
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Riding the Wave
I was diagnosed with what they used to call manic-depressive disorder in my mid-twenties, and I’ve spent the…