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
The colours present in a user interface can be critical for the success or failure of a web site. When told this people will say “what’s the best colour then.” Well there is no clean cut answer to this one. And from a design view point one has to fall back on “it depends”.
You see colour has a profound effect on our emotions, our well being and psychological response. This is supplemented by the tonal nature of the colours as well and the current environment and lighting you are viewing the site in.
Tagged: color, colours, cool, culture, psychology, theory, ui, userinterface, using+colour, ux, warm, webdesign
