“[…] never solve the problem I am asked to solve. […] Because, invariably, the problem I am asked to solve is not the real, fundamental, root problem.” — Don Norman in The Design of Everyday Things

When we finally shipped the feature, however, we realized that filters weren’t what users wanted at all. They wanted something much more basic: content that was relevant to their unique situation, with the minimal number of steps required to get it. Giving our users what they wanted taught us this lesson the hard way.

We build a simple, but powerful and intuitive, model for when a hockey coach should pull the goalie when trailing. When the model reports that the coaches aren’t doing it nearly early enough, we then ask why, and take away some key lessons for portfolio and risk management, and business in general.

Our brains are designed to worry, and they’re good at it.

They’re built to determine the next big thing to “fix.”

We were born to survive, which is to create.
Suffering dissolves when we focus on creating rather than feeling. Instead of being at the whim of how the world makes us feel, we focus on how we can create what we want from what exists.
Good and bad become irrelevant when the focus isn’t “What can I enjoy?” But, rather, “What can I create?”

You’re asking the wrong question.

“What process can we come up with so that we are creating something new, every single day?”

Content creation is about Volume. Plain and simple.

Create animation magic using keyframes, animation properties like timing, delay, play state, animation-count, iteration count, direction, fill mode and will-change.

“Almost everybody I know who does interesting, creative work went through a phase of years of where they could tell that what they were making wasn’t good as they wanted it to be… It is only by going through a volume of work will you close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions” — Ira Glass

Every month I reflect on ‘How I can be a better Designer’. I learned through my background in visual arts that you can train yourself to draw better in a shorter period of time (literally).
I experimented with this in the Summer of 2013. My goal then was to achieve realistic sketches of eyes that captured human emotion. To do this I gave myself a 30-minute time limit and these were the results…

1) 8–6–4–2 Rapid Prototype Method
The premise of this method is to sketch for 8 minutes, 6 minutes, 4 minutes and 2 minutes with quick 2 minute feedback sessions in between.

2) A Twist on the #DailyUI Challenge
Maybe you’re like me and you’ve received the congratulatory email on Day 100 🎉 with nothing to show for it. This was the simple twist I added to get myself started.

3) Solve a Problem you’ve encountered
Take a moment in your day-to-day to note down real world problems that you wish there were better solutions for. You might already a list or two or five. It’s time to solve that problem.

As a designer, I love coming across fun animations when visiting a site, and I have definitely been seeing more and more of them lately. Animations take illustrations and icons to the next level, making a site that much more engaging. While they are obviously attractive to look at, they also serve a functional purpose, captivating visitors and encouraging them to interact with the content.

To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We've got it down to four words: "Do what you love." But it's not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated.

After one week of pen-tooling mazes, I never had any difficulties with the instrument again. If I could shout one thing from the rooftops to beginning illustrators, it would be to conquer mazes.

I started looking at the components it would take to rebuild—a circle for this, a modified rectangle for that. With the exception of some unique paths here or there, almost every part stemmed from the simple shapes we learn in kindergarten.
In fact, it actually turns out that most flat illustrations are either based upon these basic shapes (which Illustrator perfectly pre-sets), or an organic shape (for which the mazes serve as preparation).

Not everyone is aware that make can easily be used to manage tasks in your projects. In this article, I’d like to share a brief introduction to how Makefiles help me automate some tasks in my day to day activities. This brief guide will focus on using make as an automation tool for tasks rather than a tool for compiling code.

A curated collection of dark UI to inspire you in your product design process.
Even more examples of dark UI could be found on our amazing visual search.

• Write three opening lines to three separate stories.
• Pick one event that occurred during the day and describe it in any style you like within ten minutes.
• What is your favorite TV or film character doing today?
• Describe or imagine the history of an object around your house.
• Write the events of your day as newspaper headlines

Lookarounds often cause confusion to the regex apprentice. I believe this confusion promptly disappears if one simple point is firmly grasped. It is that at the end of a lookahead or a lookbehind, the regex engine hasn't moved on the string. You can chain three more lookaheads after the first, and the regex engine still won't move. In fact, that's a useful technique.

In the video above, Udaya instructor Caley Alyssa demonstrates a gentle yoga sequence that'll improve your range of motion and help you get a lot more bendy. The positions will be more difficult at first; your hips and back may feel tight and you might struggle to get your hands past your knees, especially if you sit for most of the day.

This is where local port forward comes in handy. Just create an SSH connection to your remote server, like the earlier example, but this time you must add a flag that is telling the SSH program to forward a specific hostname and port:

$ ssh -L :: user@

Remote port forwarding is like the opposite of local port forwarding. It will forward all requests on a remote servers’ port to your machine.

$ ssh -R :: user@

How to do it: Perform three rounds of squats with overhead ball hold, mountain climbers, plank shoulder taps with ball on toes, planks to rolling pike, sit-ups, and jackknife ball passes. Rest for one minute between rounds.

• Squat With Overhead Ball Hold
• Mountain Climber
• Plank Hands to Elbows
• Plank to Rolling Pike
• Sit-Up
• Jackknife Ball Pass

• Daily routines
• Drawing in the mornings
• Group drawings
• Tutorials

It’s Your Obligation To Create Amazing Things
By missing out on many of the ‘one days’ in which you could’ve created something valuable and worthwhile, you do a disservice to yourself, your audience and your craft. Something awesome could have been there for the world to see — but it isn’t.

So, stop getting distracted by meaningless things. Stop letting your excuses get the better of you. And stop letting your fears dictate your work.

In that one day, you could create that blogpost or video that goes viral. You could create something that makes an impact on the lives of others. Something that grows your business. Something that changes your own life. Stop letting BS excuses get in your way and stop being your own worst enemy. You owe it to yourself, your audience and your mission to create amazing things as often as you can.