Beyond Social Media and Likes: How to Grow Creatively

Instead of emulating others, what if you focused on honing your craft?

Edition 055 of Design Insight

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📃 3 Articles

Beyond Social Media and Likes: How to Grow Creatively

The article in 3 ideas:

1. There is a lot of repetitive content on social media because people are emulating those that are at the top.

2. Instead of emulating others, what if you focused on honing your craft?

3. Focus on creating a consistent body of work, not a rushed daily Tweet or Instagram post.

Beyond Social Media and Likes: How to Grow Creatively ➜

The Collector’s Fallacy: Why We Gather Things We Don’t Need

The article in 3 ideas:

1. “Tsundoku” is the condition of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them.

2. The act of collecting is a great feeling. Our brain is rewarded with a shot of dopamine each time we add something to our collection, whether it's needed or not.

3. Set aside a daily processing block to process your inbox and review the things you've collected.

The Collector’s Fallacy ➜

Create a Media Company Instead of a Blog

The article in 3 ideas:

1. If you focus on 1 type of content, you’ll experience slow growth over time.

2. The best way to diversify your media company is to create different types of content. Video, audio, written, imagery.

3. Treat your blog like a business. Like a media company. Put your work out there on multiple platforms and channels to improve your growth.

Create a Media Company Instead of a Blog ➜

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🔨 2 Tools/Resources

Tikykiwi ➜

• A small image editor that helps you turn your ordinary screenshots into a beautiful image worth sharing.

Color Morph ➜

• A free SVG and CSS mesh gradient generator.

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🎨 1 Design Tip

Design Tip

Adam Mura @AdamMura

Tip for improving the use of colour on your website: Match the temperature of neutral colours with the temperature of the primary colour. Eg. If the primary colour is blue, then your neutral colours should have a “cool” tone.

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

1. Place headings closer to their corresponding paragraphs. ➜

2. BetterByDesign: Figma Helpers ➜

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Til next week 👋

Michelle

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