Why You Should Schedule Time For Creativity

Edition 034 of Design Insight

Hello there 👋 and welcome to the first edition of Design Insight in 2022 🎉

I have some great plans for Design Insight this year and can't wait to get started 💪

First off, I'd like to thank you for your continued support each week. It really means a lot to me that you enjoy what I have put together.

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🗃 3 Resources

📃 Article - How to Improve Your Visual Design Skills

Here's what I learned from reading this article:

1. Master your tools by learning keyboard shortcuts and workflows. This will speed up your creative process.

2. Take time to examine the use of alignment + white space in your designs. Make sure they're used consistently.

3. Review your designs holistically and ensure they're consistent.

Link To Article: How to Improve Your Visual Design Skills

🔨 Tool - Poet.so

• Source: @rang_ali

• Poet.so is a beautifully designed tool for creating visuals of your Tweets. This is incredibly useful for repurposing your Twitter content to other channels like Instagram or Facebook.

• Poet.so

🔨 Resource - UX Booth

• Source: @UXBooth

• UX Booth is a publication full of user experience articles that are sure to develop your UX knowledge. Popular topics include: Interaction Design, Content Strategy, and Philosophy so you're sure to find something interesting to read.

• UX Booth

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🎨 2 Design Tips

Use radio buttons if you have one or two options

Use radio buttons if you only have one or two options to choose from.

This makes selection easier for the user.

Design Tip - Use radio buttons if you have one or two options

Use simple icons for design elements that are not decorations

Simple icons with less detail are easier to recognize.

This speeds up user interaction and reduces mistakes.

Design Tip - Use simple icons for design elements that are not decorations

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📃 1 Article I Wrote

Why You Should Schedule Time For Creativity

The whole idea of creativity and being creative is underestimated in today’s world.

We all think we’re not creative or can’t think of original ideas but that’s not the case.

Simply put, being creative is about being able to combine things in new ways to produce different things.

This is such a powerful concept and one that you can apply to almost any discipline.

With that in mind, I wanted to write this article to share with you the value of “scheduled creativity time”.

Read The Article

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🐦 Top Tweet Of The Week

DAN KOE @thedankoe

I’m a fan of offering free work as a beginner because it tests your commitment. Yes, you should get paid for your work But there are too many trying to make a quick buck and can’t handle it. Commit, work for free, get results, increase prices. 5 year game. Not 5 week game.

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You’ve reached the end of this week’s edition of Design Insight. Thank you for reading, I truly hope you found value in the design insights I shared today.

Til next week 👋

Michelle

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