Creative Library

Vibrancy

Enthusiasm turns up the colors

Invitation

To be noticed, notice

Boldness

A Contempt for Danger

Paradox

The only way to know what ideas are worth sharing is to share your ideas.

Canyon

Doing our work allows us across the canyon of the unfamiliar

Every Day

Make Dope Stuff Everyday

Prophet

Work is love made visible - Kahlil Gibran

Quitting

The best time to quit is before you start.

Vocation

Creativity is a high-stakes part of making life a life worth living

Slip

Separating ideas from people is an essential skill for being heard.

Comfort

It takes a lot of effort to find our own way

Frame

Giving context about your needs, gives others a frame to respond within.

Ghost City

Perfect is a mirage full of abandoned buildings.

Rest

Rest restores a lot of life and opens the door to creative energy.

Enough

Embracing our limited time creates focus and is freeing.

Spectacle

The right failure is often the catalyst to change

Essence

The hard work is not asking "what can be removed?" - but in removing things.

Promise

Making space for others is how influential leaders tell stories that call others to action or enlistment.

Relief

What is the den of doing?

Preparing

I spoke truth into the rushing water, but no one heard.

Empathy

To do art in the machine of your job - keep caring. Let your heart glow for others.

Limits

People don't live in their screens - don't design like they do.

Gold

What is rare and what is abundant in your creative work?

Remove

When you're moving something around, you may at once realize - it's not needed.

Impressive

We all rattle the parking sign at some point.‍

Craft

You are not hired for your craft alone.

Dreams

We all lose our dreams—either into the fog of wishes or in farming them to life.

Tree Rings

The resource of true insight is living.

Productivity

Going outside is my most powerful productivity habit.

Mastery

Mastery of something is more like being in a relationship than reading a book. The subject you know will change.

Facade

When you finish something and wish it was better, face it with honesty and embrace its simplicity. Then work on your work, not a facade.

Pace

I wonder why don't we build more digital tools that move at a human pace?

Closeness

If closeness to our work is about knowing, distance is about forgetting.

Hero

Be the hero of your own journey and the guide of many.‍

Herringbone

Choosing in the face of infinite possibilities is the work of designing.

Mosaic

The memories of what we don’t do give us confidence in the work we choose to do.

Contend

I can have intentions, but I have to face what's in front of me.

Collaborate

Creating a shared understanding is always worth the effort.

Ask How

Don't defend your design work, instead share your process.

Magic

Aha moments of insight are more likely when we are resting our brain rather than focusing.

Preferences

Being aware of your preferences allows you to question them and, at times, abandon them.

Forever

I wonder how often we make the mistake of designing and building as if our creations will last forever.

Gradient

Nature effortlessly achieves what takes designers so much effort to copy.

Brainstorm

Creative collaboration embraces misunderstanding.

Advice

Great guides help us find our own way.

Process

When you change your process, you change what you make.

Space

Clutter is space designed poorly.

Schools

The best designers I know are professional question-askers.

Failure

We should not confuse embarrassment with failure.

Smallness

What power comes from seeing our smallness and the smallness of what we make?

Simplicity

Simplicity at its core requires continually revisiting our focus.

Consistency

Sometimes it's better to be coherent than consistent.

Attention

Is there a difference when we change our mindset from protecting to giving our attention?

Metaphors

How we speak changes how we make.

Talk Less

I have a sticky note on my desk to remind me.

Unknown

Why is the unknown scary?

Worth

What's worth making?

Good

Good Report is a list of Non-Toxic Tech Tools

Bubble

Blog of Prof Scott Galloway

Provoke

Seth Godin Daily Blog

Wonder

Wonder Stove by Jeffrey Davis

Notebooks

Field Notes For Ideas

Useful

Designing for Addiction

MVP

Integromate Tool For Prototyping

Factfulness

Factfulness by Hans Rosling

Figma

Figma Design Tool

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