Your Design Is Wrong (And Here's Why)

Mike Rundle explores the pros and cons of design critique on Dribble, and where design execution can go wrong. Mind that kerning!

Your Design Is Wrong (And Here's Why) ~ Flyosity by Mike Rundle

On Creativity and Design

Matt Ward poses the question, can creativity and design be independent of each other? As designers, we can create beautiful, functional and highly usable experiences without necessarily being "creative", in the sense of bringing something into being that has never been seen before.

However, as the web is a shared medium where, in most circumstances, the user is trying to *do* something, is this a bad thing? Is the thoughtful construction of typography and visual elements using a grid, open standards and best practices "creativity", or just clever synthesis? Interesting questions, as we think through our roles as both artists and practitioners.

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Five for Friday: 10 Tips to Avoid a Creative Block

Nice list of ideas.

Years ago, we used to live in Pittsburgh, where I was writing a bit of music before moving to Boston to go to Berklee. I used to go jogging whenever I was feeling stuck or couldn't figure out where I wanted to take a particular piece.

The problem was, I lived in an apartment building with a very nice foyer and elevators that played classical music around the clock. After jogging a couple of miles, I'd work through what I wanted to do in my head – the perfect chord or melody – but then I'd have to get home to write it down or record it.

This meant running a gauntlet of Mozart and Beethoven, desperately trying not to lose the nifty little solution I had in my head in a wave of Ravel. I must have looked like an idiot, eyes closed, frantically humming to myself in the elevator.

In Boston, we lived in a horrible apartment for several years, and while once or twice the gauntlet involved more traditional mugging, at least it was easier to keep a tune in my head.

Do you ever get creatively stuck? How do you break out of it?

10 Tips to Avoid a Creative Block | Inspired Magazine