Creativity is a strange beast. Often creativity is blocking us, running away. We often talk about it, discuss it at length and even say it can be learned. Sometimes it’s even hard to find that creative spark. However what is creativity. In reality creativity is a hard thing to define as a specific reproducible item.
Doesn’t help that creativity is different things to different people.
You see creativity can be related to the newer western principle of making products, building things for a purpose, the expression of scientific or technological innovation. Where as in older cultures, there has always been an undertone for creativity being more for personal fulfilment, private goal setting, the taking of an inner journey.
Tagged: awarenessstate, consciousness, creak, creativity, design, dreamstate, learn, p52, project-52, psychology, teach, userexperience, ux
I was talking to the local UPA Perth chapter (in formation) about aspects of UX visualisation. It was an interesting topic that brought up a good number of discussion points.
One point was on the design process. The way we design. The way that we just don’t allow ourselves time to fail at the design. Or if we do, it is hidden in the back room so we can appear to be “magical design wizards” that produce the perfect product, interface design, IA or the like.
Tagged: clients, design, process, project-52, protosketching, prototyping, sketching, user experience, user interface, ux, ux-design
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As I’m designing forms I don’t usually have an issue making then usable or accessible within the limits of the clients budget.
However taking the form to the next level technically can sometimes be an issue. This is exactly what Fancy Form Design by Jina Bolton, Tim Connell and Derek Featherstone is all about, designing and building those great forms on the web.
When I first purchased this book (yes I do purchase my books, they aren’t usually review freebies) I was a little skeptical as to whether this book would have any content in it that would be relevant to me. This is an issue that I’m running into more and more these days.
Tagged: accessibility, design, enhancement, forms, jquery, project-52, review, ui, usability, ux, webdesign
It’s one of those wet August days in Perth when the sunny and rain just can’t make up their mind who really wants to be the dominate partner. In a similar way a web design business can wrestle with a similar issue. Do you use someone else’s pre-built templates or do you roll your own designs.
Between User Experience and Information Architecture gigs I usually squeeze in a little standard front end web site development. Over the years I have rolled my own, designing each website from scratch to the final interactive site. I have prided myself in this production of a higher quality result that my clients where looking for. Something unique that they knew was a once off.
