How You Can Train Yourself To Think Like A Designer

Toward the end of last week’s post concluding my short series about design concepts, I mentioned that you want to consistently look at other designs and ask yourself questions about what you see. I want to spend today expanding on that idea a little.

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Build A Process That Works For You By Stealing From Others

Do you work from a process? I’m going to answer for you and tell you that you do. Everyone does whether they call it a process of not. If you go through any of the same steps across projects, you have a process.

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Learning Is More Than Where You Get An Education

Is where you get an education or how you get an education important? I think it’s less important than many would think. It’s the education that’s important and not so much where or how you get it.

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Your Design Skills Could Lift Humanity To New Heights

If we all have the capability to solve problems, to communicate to others, and to make decisions toward a goal, it seems we all have the ability to design. What then, does it mean to be a designer?

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It’s Not My Fault—Taking Responsibility For Yourself

Do you take responsibility for your actions? All of them? Are you sure? How consistent are you with the things you believe and the things you do? They’re harder questions to answer than you might think. We’re all pretty good at finding ways to avoid responsibility when we want to. The thing is taking responsibility is the first step toward getting better and achieving success.

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