Tag: creativity
The creative process — divergent thinking, creative confidence, the 650 exercises, and what happens when you stop managing your own output.
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Playing With Purpose: Research Without an Agenda
Playing With Purpose Exercise 11: Research something you think you know — with no agenda. The goal isn’t…
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What 3 or 4 Years of Talking to AI Taught Me About Talking to Myself
After 3 years of talking to AI, I learned something unexpected about talking to myself.
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Color Is a Frequency. That Changes Everything.
Part 1 of the color theory series: why color-as-emotion is incomplete, and what happens when you start treating…
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Your Typeface Has a Sound. Here’s the Research.
Two typefaces that look nothing alike feel the same. A student’s question led to years of research into…
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What If a Song Wrote Your Next Design?
A design brief full of contradictions. A song playing in the background. Twenty minutes later, the whole thing…
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Your Best Ideas Don’t Come From Trying Harder
About this post: I’m on the treadmill at 5:30 in the morning five days a week, and it…
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Playing With Purpose: Ask a Better Question
Playing With Purpose Exercise 10: Rewrite your stuck question five times, each layer deeper. The question you started…
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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…