Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
If you’ve ever felt hesitant to write because you’re “not sure what to say,” consider this: the act of writing itself often reveals what you didn’t know you knew. It’s a tool for discovery, a way to explore ideas and refine thoughts. Writing isn’t about knowing all the answers in advance; it’s about trusting that the answers will come through the
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Wisława Szymborska
Central IdeaFeedback encompasses three forms: reaction, direction, and critique. Reaction and direction are limited in their ability to help us understand if the design choices we’ve made might work toward the product’s objectives. Critique, a form of analysis that uses critical thinking, is feedback that focuses on exactly that understanding.
Feedback consists of 3️⃣ parts: reaction, direction, and critique
Work-Life Balance
📝 Chris Pedregal prioritizes being a good dad, partner, and CEO.
😩 He believes he can only excel at two out of the three roles at any given time.
🔄 His strategy is to rotate his focus among these roles to prevent any one area from suffering.
💔 Chris acknowledges that startups demand significant time and effort, impacting other areas
... See moreThe most crucial thing we discover is how you work as a team. We need to know how many people actively publish to or maintain the website, and how much time they commit to it. We also need to know their skill sets. Any decent design solution takes your resources into account.
So when a client says, “We want tons of big photos,” my next question is,
... See moreDon’t sell a design if you know the client cannot sustain.
Das Problem: Im Familienalltag lässt sich oft schwer unterscheiden, ob man etwas tut, weil es wirklich nötig ist – oder weil man das Gefühl hat, es werde von einem als Elternteil erwartet. Vor allem Mütter haben viel zu oft das Gefühl, schief angeschaut zu werden.
In spite of what I just said about how serious practitioners do get triggered, it’s also true that the shape of your mind changes such that you are not default worried. And when this happens, you realize that most people are default worried. Like, most people have a free-floating existential worry drive that latches onto any signal that things are
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