being “creative” mostly comes down to trying to make something work for longer than a reasonable person would bother to

Wrote my first design blog post for 2023 (better late than never!)🙌 medium.com/p/acb81cb8df42

Breathe life into what you make.

I wish great designers were more drawn to companies that have great products and bad design.

I’m seeing a lot of articles claiming the last 15 years were a “golden age” for design, and how the good times are now over. This is super interesting as very few designers i’ve spoken to the last 15 years expressed any sense that they were living through a golden age.

Don’t let an obsession with productivity kill your creativity. We’re not designed to optimize every single moment of our lives. A lot of creative insights emerge in liminal moments when we’re not rushing to get to a specific destination.

The things you do, become a part of you. If you overdo them, they undo you.

I know I'm getting somewhere with my designs when I momentarily try to do something with them as if they're built and fully functional when they're still in the "bunch of rectangles sitting on an artboard" phase.

[Opening Figma to look at my designs at the beginning of the day] Me: Why do the designs look like this? Who did this? Oh me. Yesterday. Okay.

It’s remarkable the number of leaders right now blaming solid ICs for “not working hard enough” when the real issue is the leader’s inability to set a clear goal.

Working on my own product feels like I'm tossing aside the playbook I've learned in my career as a designer Design system? Non-existent Features? As many as can be built in a reasonable time frame Constraints? Mostly self-imposed It's amazing and a little scary

There are a ton of designers out there far more talented than their work environments allow them to show (managers and individual contributors like).