When thinking about design and how to implement good design choices, five rules of thumb spring to mind. These are probably some of the most important rules for any good designer - so you'll need to keep them handy. Rule 1 - Nature is the best designer of all ! Remember to always get back to nature, every chance you get! Observing nature - living in its elements and how all parts of the ecosystem interact, as part of a community, is often the most relaxing and thought provoking opportunity you will get. All elements of nature somehow complement and contrast, in a perfect harmony. Good design on a man-made scale can do the same; and is the most pleasurable to look at and use if you learn to blend these elements. Rule 2 - Not all design requires equilibrium; asymmetry makes a great statement! Yes, balance is important, but it's not all the same. Not everything needs to be symmetrical or retain the same values. Take a look at Asian Design, where asymmetry is highly sort after; it follows the laws of nature where singularity is pronounced and offset by a complementary opposites. However, it is also simple and well-defined. So be careful! Rule 3 - Balance typography with thoughtful colour choice, shape and placement of the elements. Choice of typography is often ill-used in both the design and advertising fields. Cluttered fonts and ill-selected colours that cause the reader to squint or stress over the message, are hardly efficient on projecting that message or in ease of readability. Readers turn away and clients bolt for the heavens - knowing full well something is astray, but not quite sure of the problems. Either way, the message is not delivered and the experience is not pleasurable for anyone. Rule 4 - Less is more! If Rule 3 has not been well thought out, scaling back to the bare minimum is often the best strategy. Define the message, in as few words as possible; you might not even need, to use any. Design elements arranged and chosen well can deliver a far more effective message, than cluttering it with useless words. Don't just fill the page, because you can - use words because they are needed, to enhance the message. Rule 5 - Never let your work define you; you define your work!
Creativity can not be delivered, if you let the work tell you what, how and in what manner you should deliver results. Neither, should it preset the sort of artistic design work you can deliver, if given ample opportunity to create. It is your creativity and your ability to manifest unique, out of the box ideas that project the best and most appreciated designs. They also create a sense of you and your own particular style. Life will throw you a stack of curved balls, but you can’t let that stop you from where you know you are destined to go. You must have faith and conviction in everything you do! Don’t waste time on menial tasks, negative people and users.
Find a new bunch of people who will help you grow, learn and be there for you - no matter what. Get rid of the tasks that take up your time - outsource them to people who can do them efficiently enough so you can use your energies on the important stuff. Users just bug me and you might not even realise they are using you until it is too late, or until you have learnt the hard way. Business is never easy, gosh life is not easy - but you can lessen the blows, by engaging in things that really matter, people that really matter and your energy given to things that really matter! Everything is finite! Place it your time and energy where it counts! Throughout my life, I have listened to people say - "It's on my 'List of Things To Do'". However, saying it and creating it, are two entirely different things! One assumes that by placing it on the list, the task is ready for a strike of busyness. While other people smile when I say it; as if it is just a thing one wants to say, when you really don't want to be rude and want to appear too busy. It's on my 'List of Things To Do' My list of things to do, are those things that I believe could enhance my skills; those which I would benefit from checking out, at a later date. My list of priorities however, are quite different. The latter are items I believe I MUST do, in order for me to move forward on my life-hood plan, goals and dreams (all things I want to achieve in my life). Most people go through life with only one plan, few write anything down on a daily basis; even fewer write or plan their life, in order to achieve those goals and much fewer than that, ever achieve their verbalised goals. For me, they are verbalisations and remain mere pipe dreams, all because people fail to act on a LIST that they should have written down - at least once throughout their existence. I say existence, because it is just that. Going through the motions of living; failing to have really lived, because one fears...'what if I succeed'.
Michelle Obama speaks honestly about the challenges she and Obama face while being in office. Things that don't really matter, people get hung up on; the small issues are what you take resentment to. So why do we? Should it matter? Does it matter to you? Should maybe brush it off?
Listen to her views... Any entrepreneur, let alone a fem’preneur, will face challenges above and beyond what seems fair in the course of innovating a new business idea into action.
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