Wide scope. Time to target.
Leave a CommentI have taken up a lot of sports. I used to last about a year or so of dedication to that one sport. I was good. I was constant. I had success and rewards.
One sport. One aspect. One position.
I want to excel at everthing
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Meagan Fisher recently published article entitled ”just keep going”.
Not only is the article a great read. It makes some great points about learning something new. Meagan wrote this article out of frustration of learning guitar and how to cook a meal. You can feel the frustration in her writing after quitting several times.
I often felt the same. I came across the same hurdles.
Here is my thoughts on why you should keep going.
3 Traps I Fell into as a Self-Learner
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Recently, Amy Haywood wrote an article for Ah Ha creative. She detailed 3 traps that she fell into as a creative , things that she got (unnecessarily) hung up on:
This article inspired me to consider my own traps, things that I got unnecessarily hung up on while self-learning web design.
Inspiration Takes Practice
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In today’s world we are always connected and this is a fabulous thing. It allows us to collaborate, share ideas and stimulates our minds to be creative. We can find inspiration in other peoples ideas, creations and success’s. The main focus of my blog is self-learning web design. At the start i mainly focused on learning the technologies. When it came to stimulating ideas for new web designs i often struggled. So i connected with others. and leveraged other peoples designs to explore and learn. I found designers that shared their inspiration, gave insight into there design processes. It was clear i required a process that would allow me to be inspired to create fresh new web designs. The main thing i learned is that inspiration is ongoing process, it takes practices and requires a new way of thinking. It is often a misunderstood, hard to define word. Even now defining inspiration is difficult at times it appears magically. So how do we process our inspiration and use it to produce fresh new designs?
Copy to practice, Copy the inspiration, for a fresh unique design.
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Copy for practice to improve. Copy the inspiration for a fresh design that is unique. At the start of my web design journey I struggled to produce designs of my own. This was not lack of creativity. Its was that i could not make sense of copying the inspiration. I quickly realised that I feared copying others work. At school we are told not to copy. In my own mind there was a battle between wanting to learn and fear of not being original. The idea that you must not or should not, copy others, is false idea. Even on the web the idea of copying inspiration ignites controversial debates. Copying others that are successful is a good starting point for any new web designer.
Update on my 30 Day Challenge
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Update on my 30 day challenge which was inspired by the talk by Matt Cutts. Instead of just one challenge a came up with a few.
Add a new habit
- Drink 1.2 litres (six to eight glasses) of fluid every day to stop getting dehydrated.
- Start Running Again.
- Write about inspiration and show the results.
Subtract a old habit
- Reduce Browsing Habits and increase content for website
- Stop spending so much time thinking about a problem.
- Reduce time in the shower to 2 mins.
- No chocolate.
Who Else Wants a 30 day Challenge?
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While i was culling my old bookmark folder, i came across a link to Rookie Designer a site i used to visit. Straight away my eyes were drawn to a post title Bit of Inspiration: 30 Day Challenge. As the owner of Rookie Designer was inspired by the article, i too have taken inspiration from it. The idea is really simple think about something that you always wanted to add or subtract from your life then try it for 30 days. It doesn’t have to be ground breaking can be something really simple. Matt Cutts talks about how small changes are more sustainable and the 30 days are made to feel more memorable. He shares some of his own experiences of trying something new, and it has clearly changed his life.
What Everybody Ought to Know about Self-learning Web Design?
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Choosing the right approach to self-learning web design is vital if you want to make the most of your efforts and time.
Approaching learning in the wrong way usually result in a lack of understanding, ends up wasting your time and leaves you feeling that wed design is out of your league.
Self-learning is hard and is made even more difficult with the wrong approach.
In this article, I have drawn on my own experiences self-learning web design. Help yourself on the road to becoming a great self-learner.
So where do we begin?
Get Rid of Your Unproductive Learning Habits Once and For All
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You have learnt html and css, read a bunch of articles on design and now want to make websites but you never get started because you keep learning instead of doing. Be realistic even the most experienced web designers have had failures which they have learnt from. Just starting out on your journey you probably have limited understanding of what makes a beautiful design. But you want to start making beautiful web sites. So where do you start?