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Let's order too much of something just to see where our limits are. Let's take a chance precisely because it might fail. Let's take the hard way out. Let's go to the moon. Fuck it; let's go to the moon again. Let's quit our jobs. Let's work at being better at what we do by fucking up faster, not less. Let's fuck up really fast. Let's wrestle sharks, fight monsters, and disagree with the board. Let's borrow so much money it becomes someone else's problem. Let's start a 10-hour drive by announcing "I'm not into you anymore." Let's dump everything out of the garage onto the sidewalk and build something really cool in that space. Let's start out to build a better mousetrap, and halfway there let's decide to jump on the mice's team.
That's it: design is the plan that gets us to our goal.
a designer who says they were "inspired" to do something opens the door for a stakeholder to give feedback that's just as subjective. Whim begets whim. Now you've got a roomful of people arguing about their favorite colors.
Confidence doesn't come from knowing you're right - it comes from being okay with failing.
Beware a designer who wants you to like them more than they want to do good work.
A good designer finds an elegant way to put everything you need on a page. A great designer convinces you half that shit is unnecessary.
There's a big difference between defending work, which a designer must know how to do, and being defensive about work, which a designer should never do.
Make sure you're consciously building the story you want to be telling. And make sure your story is compelling enough that your next client is excited to become a character in it.
