The Best Ideas Are Rarely Logical

The art of conceptual blending

Edition 047 of Design Insight

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📃 3 Articles

Conceptual Blending

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Conceptual blending - blending different, unrelated things together to create new creative strategies. It is an element of critical thinking.

2. The more your brain does a task, the stronger your neural pathways become. This makes it harder for your mind to diverge and think differently.

3. The best ideas are rarely logical. It’s often the illogical ideas that resonate.

Link To Article: Conceptual Blending

Prove yourself wrong

The article in 3 ideas:

1. When designing, think of yourself as a scientist. You put forward a creative hypothesis and then go through a series of experiments, adjustments, and conversations to test it.

2. If you constrain yourself with the mindset of only proving yourself right, you’ll only look for feedback that aligns with your assumptions.

3. Design quickly and share early and often. This allows for more iterations resulting in a better overall design.

Link To Article: Prove yourself wrong

UX: Infinite Scrolling vs. Pagination

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Infinite scrolling - endlessly scrolling down through a web page with no end in sight. The page as you scroll down.

2. Pagination is a design pattern that divides content into separate pages. The row of numbers at the end of a page.

3. Infinite scrolling is better for large streams of data whereas pagination is better for sites where users are looking for something specific.

Link To Article: UX: Infinite Scrolling vs. Pagination

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🎨 1 Design Tip

Design Tip

Barton Smith @bartonsmith

'Show layout bounds' is such a helpful debug tool on Android. I wish iOS would natively support the same. If you haven't used it before, Settings → Developer Options → Drawing.

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