How To Become An Expert

A Craftsperson's Mindset

Hi there 👋 I'm Michelle and welcome to Edition 70 of Design Insight. A weekly newsletter for creatives with a focus on design.

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This week over on Twitter I shared a screenshot of my Projects list in Todoist. It sparked some interesting conversations with other Todoist and PARA fans so I'd love to hear what you think.

How do you structure tasks in your task management tool? Do you color code things or use emojis to denote different types of tasks? Leave me a comment below or reply over on Twitter.

Michelle Mac @heymichellemac

I've embraced the PARA method a lot more in my digital life as of late. It even resulted in a reshuffle of my @todoist projects which I'm quite happy with 🙂

Let's get started.

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📃 3 Articles

How to become an expert

The article in 3 ideas:

1. See yourself as a craftsperson. Someone who makes their work the best it can be.

2. As a craftsperson, the process is the reward. You have to enjoy what you’re doing.

3. Start by making something bad, and keep iterating until it’s good. This is much more effective than trying to make something perfect right from the start.

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How I learn in Obsidian - Keeping up with tech trends

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Tag notes to be processed with a tag like TVZ or inbox. This makes them easy to search for and process.

2. Add Parent, Sibling, Children links between notes to help you think about hierarchy and how things are linked together.

3. Use Excalidraw to create visuals that solidify your knowledge of the topic you’re learning.

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Fitts's Law and Its Applications in UX

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Fitts’s Law - The movement time to a target depends on the size of the target and the distance to the target.

2. Paul Fitts was a psychologist who studied airplane cockpit design during World War 2. He argued that many of the losses were not due to human error but due to bad design.

3. Don’t place targets too close to each other, especially if they are small in size. Also, ensure buttons are big enough to tap on/click on.

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🔨 2 Tools/Resources

Penpot ➜

• A free, open-source design and prototyping tool.

UI Garage ➜

• Daily handpicked UI inspiration & patterns

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🎨 1 Design Tip

Design Tip

Jim Raptis 🇺🇦 @d__raptis

UI Design Tip ✨ Remove any friction Identify your most common user flows and eliminate the friction for your users by reducing unnecessary steps/clicks.

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

1. Emoji Kitchen ➜

2. UI design tip - Don't blindly follow big companies ➜

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Til next week 👋

Michelle