Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
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Across all creative fields, what isn’t there is just as important as what is there. In fashion, Coco Chanel advised, “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.” In music, Miles Davis famously quipped, “It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.” In design, Jan Tschichold noted that “white space is to be
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Interfaces used to be the solution. “There’s an app for that” was music to our ears.
But now interfaces are overused. They’re getting in the way. Instead of pragmatic solutions, we’re building clunky apps.
The solution is not a better app. The solution is no app – no interface.
Example: an app to open your car. Krishna explains how such an app can... See more
But now interfaces are overused. They’re getting in the way. Instead of pragmatic solutions, we’re building clunky apps.
The solution is not a better app. The solution is no app – no interface.
Example: an app to open your car. Krishna explains how such an app can... See more
Golden Krishna • Notes on The Best Interface is No Interface
Over the years, and especially through my time growing Behance, I have had the opportunity to follow and work with all kinds of designers from around the world. I’ve come to believe that the most effective designers are always solving a specific problem and seem to do so more by removing than adding.
Scott Belsky • The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
“If you destroy the creative impulse, you will destroy the intrinsic value of the individual at the same time. But you can still live on as a wall decoration.”
-Carl Jung
Recovering Overthinker • You Should Be Terrified of Not Expressing Yourself
You Should Be Terrified of Not Expressing Yourself
Recovering Overthinkerexistentialespresso.substack.comOver a century before Jungians pointed out the danger of ignoring and avoiding your creative potential, Danish philosopher and the godfather of Existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard said that the deepest form of despair is “to choose to be another than oneself.”
And what is any form of self-expression and creation other than choosing to be yourself?
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The speaker discusses how the practice of writing and rereading digital diaries provides crucial self-reflection, revealing long-standing personal patterns.
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And I feel like a lot of that has been born out of your practice of writing diaries.
You are correct I started writing diaries as many young people do with like 10 or 12 And I think I found them really to be helpful strangely once I switched to doing them on the computer because my handwriting was so sloppy, specifically in the most interesting
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The strategic advantage of authenticity and differentiation in an age of conformity, advocating for uniqueness as a business advantage.
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See? There's, you know, I started writing this in my head last night.
This is like there an we in what I calling the age this is not the right language but we in the age of undifferentiation In that like everything is the same It seems like everything the same now Like software interfaces just look like they all look like wireframes.
They're all
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Critiquing the modern obsession with speed, advocating for slowness and intentionality as superior metrics for meaningful work.
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And yet, you know, the analog is slower, which is people say, well, it's slower.
And I'm like, yeah, it's slower.
You know I have this long essay written I want to publish at some point about optimizing for speed I think one of the detriments of modern computer era and technology is that we start to think that speed is the best metric for everything
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