Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
The Rules of Brainstorming
Quantity over quality
No such thing as a bad idea
Build on each others ideas
Do not demand to be appreciated, but let your satisfaction be the pleasure of others.
â The Yoga of Eating by Charles Eisenstein
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. Iâve come to believe that the most effective designers are always solving a specific problem and seem to do so more by removing than adding.
Simplicity is the key to successâand the hardest thing to pull off in design. When you do manage the feat, it looks like youâve done nothing! Because, oh my god, itâs so simple. Which is why the main ingredient of achieving simplicity is confidence. A good designer finds an elegant way to put everything you need on a page. A great designer
... See moreSo how do we do it? Letâs imagine that we want to come up with 20 ideas for marketing slogans for a new mail-order cheese shop. The AI can generate those for us, but we will get even better quality if we remember the principle of telling AI who it is: You are an expert at marketing. When asked to generate slogan ideas you come up with ideas that
... See moreIf youâve ever felt hesitant to write because youâre ânot sure what to say,â consider this: the act of writing itself often reveals what you didnât know you knew. Itâs a tool for discovery, a way to explore ideas and refine thoughts. Writing isnât about knowing all the answers in advance; itâs about trusting that the answers will come through the
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