You Learn More Effectively By Practicing

Regardless of your circumstances, you are the ultimate owner of your own creative growth

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🗃 3 Resources

📃 Article - The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything

The article in 3 ideas:

1. The Feynman Technique can be used to improve your understanding of almost any topic you want to learn about.

2. By breaking down a topic into its simplest parts and explaining it in simple terms (like you're explaining it to a 12-year-old), you can better understand the topic.

3. You can also use this technique to see how well others understand a particular topic or concept: explain it to me like I'm 12.

🔨 Tool - TLDRAW

• Source: @tldraw

• A tiny little drawing app you can use directly in your browser.

🔨 Resource - Low Fidelity Podcast

• Source: @rizwanjavaid

• Low Fidelity is a podcast hosted by Rizwan Javaid about cultivating resilient mindsets in the world of design. I recently subscribed to this podcast after being a subscriber to Rizwan's newsletter for the last several months (also called Low Fidelity).

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🎨 2 Design Tips

This month we're focusing on design tips from other designers on Twitter 😃

Here’s an easy way to gain consistency in your designs

Kaila @kailavansumer

Here’s an easy way to gain some consistency in your designs: Style every bit of text the same to start. Then only change the ones that have a dang good reason to be different.

January 5th 2022

6 Retweets34 Likes

Provide an icon to clear the text input

Victor @vponamariov

UI/UX Tip 💡 The less effort users make - the better. Provide an icon to clear the text input. It's especially useful when you're on a mobile device.

January 20th 2022

52 Retweets495 Likes

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📃 1 Article I Wrote

You Learn More Effectively By Practicing

This article will motivate you to start practicing your skills more often.

Consistent practice will help you to learn more effectively over time no matter what discipline you’re working in whether it’s web development, graphic design, content creation, or anything else.

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🐦 Top Tweet Of The Week

Samuel Thompson 🥽 @ImSamThompson

We all made mistakes in 2021. We’re going to make mistakes in 2022. Just don’t make the same mistakes.

January 15th 2022

5 Retweets73 Likes

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In case you missed it, here are last week's most popular links:

1. How To Think About Hierarchy

2. Conic.css

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Til next week 👋

Michelle

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