All of sudden, we weren’t just designing something visual, but we needed to understand human behaviour, to see ourselves in other people’s contexts ( don’t get me started on our empathy phase!!! ), to learn how the decisions we made could affect a company’s bottom line, etc.

But along the way, we lost something. The actual work we were producing.... See more

The work, no matter how worthy, is often a slog. The “before” stage is exciting, full of potential. The “after” gives me resolution, closure, the feeling of a happily ever after. What happens between those moments SUUUUCKS. It’s just me, zoomed into my canvas at 3200%, tweaking a bezier curve on that icon oh-so-slightly. Watching Rocky Balboa lift... See more

Whenever I start a new project, a certain kind of empty, formless fear settles over me. The specific content of the fear depends on the medium:

If I’m writing: The fear that I have nothing to say. The fear that I will not be able to find anything to say, that there will be no argument or thesis at the core of what I’m doing. That I won’t be able to... See more