5 Practices I Follow Consistently After Reading The Bullet Journal Method
Tools are only as valuable as their ability to help you accomplish the task at hand
Hi there 👋 I'm Michelle and welcome to Edition 72 of Design Insight. A weekly newsletter for creatives with a focus on design.
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As I write this, it's the last week of September so I'm looking ahead to the final quarter of 2022! I must admit, it really snuck up on me and I haven't started my quarterly review yet so I better get on that 😅
Instead of starting my quarterly review over the last week, I've been busy gaming and working through my backlog.
Something I really love researching is ways to track games, whether it be games I played or games in my backlog. It's become an obsession at this point and it's my go-to way to procrastinate on my work.
With that in mind, I just came across Backloggd and I've been enjoying it immensely. I'm seriously considering writing a review or deep dive into this app so let me know if this is something that would interest you.
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5 Practices I Follow Consistently After Reading The Bullet Journal Method
The article in 3 ideas:
By identifying what's in your control and forgetting about the things you can't control, you'll reclaim your attention and be able to focus on what's important to you.
If you can connect the work you do with some intrinsic meaning, you'll start to enjoy your work. When you can enjoy your work, this gives you increased motivation to keep going when things are tough.
Without taking stock of where you're at right now, you won't learn from your experiences which means you'll make the same mistakes over and over again.
You should take more screenshots
The article in 3 ideas:
Digital work isn’t tangible. It lives on a computer unlike physical creations like paintings or sculptures.
Digital work is hard to remember and retrieve at a moment's notice, especially when it requires a long-gone piece of hardware or software.
Capture screenshots of your work in progress and save them to a folder so you can look at them long into the future.
The current obsession with rounded edges in user interfaces
The article in 3 ideas:
Our brains are conditioned to recognize sharp objects as dangerous. Rounded or less-sharp objects are perceived as being less dangerous or safer.
Rounded buttons are easier for our brains to process when compared to squared buttons.
Rounded edges don’t work all the time though and it’s important to make informed design decisions instead of blindly following the current design trend.
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A tool for creating and maintaining cohesive, consistent, and accessible color palettes.
The best website design ideas for your inspiration.
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Til next week 👋
Michelle
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