Building
Sitting down and just thinking hard does not magically produce valuable discoveries either. The essence of the word "interaction" implies a relationship between a human and an environment. In my experience, great revelations surface from making something — filling your headspace with a problem — and then going for a synthesising daydreaming walk to... See more
Rauno Freiberg • Invisible Details of Interaction Design
When you wait, you lose momentum. And momentum is incredibly powerful because when you’re inspired, you act—and you do it with enthusiasm.
Erifili Gounari • literally just do things
You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, “How did he do it?
... See moreTiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
“Learn to code” is the wrong frame.
Just build stuff, and learn exactly what is needed to accomplish your goal. AI makes this easier and more fun than ever before!
Simon Lastx.comDon't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine...Fill your website with your work with your ideas and the stuff you care about. Don't let it fall into neglect. Think about it in the long term. Stick with it, maintain it, and let it change you over time.
Simplicity isn’t just a visual style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. For example, to have no screws on something, you can end up having a product that is so convoluted and so complex. The better way is to go deeper with the... See more
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
complexity first, simplicity second
people say “keep it simple,” but most approach it backwards. they start from simple, then add on complexity without seeing the whole. that’s how you end up with frankenstein products: clean-looking components awkwardly stitched together, held in place by duct tape and wishful... See more
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