Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
So when you discuss pricing with your designer (and it should be a discussion), make sure they can stand behind their quote. Have them walk you through it and explain why they’re charging what they’re charging. You should get an itemized breakdown for the project’s major parts. Some designers and studios may even be willing to give you an hourly
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Great design is when you design for others to feel, to experience with their senses, perhaps even to be pleasantly surprised–a joyful experience. This joyfulness converts always into goodwill, warm memories and, if you are so inclined, cash. Some of the most successful recent businesses were founded by designers–adopting their practices could be
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If you want to do something with AI, just ask it to help you do the thing. “I want to write a novel; what do you need to know to help me?” will get you surprisingly far. And remember, AI is only going to get better at guiding us, rather than requiring us to guide it. Prompting is not going to be that important for that much longer.
This doesn’t mean
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Reframe non-productive time. One of the reasons the exploration phase of the work is low value is that most of it doesn’t look like work. It’s lots of reading, and sitting and thinking, and doodling, and trying things that lead to dead ends. Non-productive time feels like a waste—but it doesn’t have to! One way to think about this kind of time is
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Motivation vs Procrastination and
Non-productive is often framed wrongly so
Like many other artists, I collect ideas. And every morning at 10am, I get a random text message containing an idea that I’ve saved in the past. Ambiently, it surfaces itself into my life every morning, usually while I’m working out. It’s something to think about.
Are.na • The Forbidden Zone
Here’s a tool you can immediately try out to activate the parasympathetic nervous system and push back the stress response in real-time:
The physiological sigh.
It’s simple:
The physiological sigh.
It’s simple:
- 2 inhales through the nose (one long until you feel you can do no more, and then a second small one)
- 1 long extended exhale through the mouth
- 1–3 times
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If a designer shows you work in progress, it’s a great sign. It means they’ve moved beyond a fear that all you’ll see is the broken stuff to a willingness to collaborate with you. Look at it in the spirit of collaboration. Ask questions about what they’re showing. Talk about where they’re headed with it. Feel free to ask if there’s any feedback
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Another effective [pricing] strategy is using precise numbers, like $245 instead of rounding up to $250. This approach can make the price appear more thoughtfully calculated and less arbitrary, potentially increasing its perceived value and trustworthiness.
Our new AIs have been trained on a huge amount of our cultural history and are using it to provide us with text and images in response to our queries. But there is no index or map to what they know and where they might be most helpful. Thus, we need people who have deep or broad knowledge of unusual fields to use AI in ways that others cannot,
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Knowledge of the humanities as unique qualification to work (well) with AI!