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From design breakdowns and advice to industry trends, this is where I share ideas, insights, and inspiration.
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Carefully Care-Free
A writer must choose between writing authentically, and therefore creating their best work, or writing what they think the audience wants to hear, which may not be as effective.
5 Things Successful Designers Must Master
Designers are often known as a ‘Jack of All Trades’: familiar with a variety of different softwares and skilled in designing everything from websites to social media graphics to package design.
Behind the Blogger
With 2025 just beginning, its time for an introduction. Whether it be in art classes or on her own, Ashley has always enjoyed working creatively. In high school, she took her creative passion more seriously and found her love for design through classes, clubs, and participating in extracurricular activities.
Hold the fluff.
When writing, we often feel tempted to ‘fluff’ it up, adding unnecessary words and phrases that make it longer but not necessarily more meaningful. With the increase of electronic writing, the issue has worsened, as writers add more and more ‘frills’.
You win some, you lose some.
The important question is, how much are we losing? If even Steve Jobs restricts and limits his child’s screen usage, how big of a problem is this?
One step at a time.
In efforts to become more organized with my classwork and tasks as a student taking both undergrad and grad classes, I tried out two project management systems. The two platforms I tried…
Tackling the root of the problem.
The widely popular tech designer, Nir Eyal believes that we as individuals must look inward to understand the eager need for distractions primarily taking place on our phone (Hari).
Instagram Digital Detox
In Stolen Focus, Hari shares how in the same way magicians know and use your weaknesses against you, designers and tech professionals do the same. Although these designers may have the intention to do good, it is often the opposite.
Wondering & Wandering
I have always wondered why my mind is always drifting and daydreaming, and why I love to think about other things when I should be focusing on something else. In simple terms, it is Mind Wandering.
No Escape.
Stolen focus by Joanne Hari, is a very interesting read based on how technology and the fast pace of society contributes to the way our minds are overwhelmed and exhausted.