We're thinking,

The key choices you make—apart from the nat­ural tal­ent you already have—will set you apart from oth­ers who have tal­ent alone. Tal­ent + right choices = a Talent-​​​​Plus Per­son. Via Don’t be suc­cess­ful. Be valu­able. /​​/​​ Processed Iden­tity: Shar­ing How You Got There /​​ The Cre­ative Process of Iden­tity and Logo Design.

Is the bad client a fact of busi­ness or a crutch when things go awry? If you have direct con­tact with clients at some point your going to get your­self into a work­ing rela­tion­ship, which doesn’t. It’s one of those unavoid­able things in life—like death and taxes. Few sub­jects for free­lancers gen­er­ate more dis­cus­sions than how to work with less-​​​​than-​​​​ideal clients. It’s sim­ply a fact of doing busi­ness not every rela­tion­ship is going to gel.

Why do Design­ers and Devel­op­ers have a seem­ingly adver­sar­ial rela­tion­ship? If you’re a Designer you can design the most beau­ti­ful, use­able, rev­o­lu­tion­ary web site but with­out a Devel­oper to assem­ble the nuts and bolts no one will ever get to see it. As a Devel­oper you can have the clean­est, strictest code con­nect­ing the most amaz­ing ser­vices and doing the most amaz­ing things. But with­out a Designer pre­sent­ing it with an equally great UI no one will ever want to use it.…

I’ve now spent a day with my iPad and my ini­tial impres­sion is much more favor­able than antic­i­pated. I make no apologies—I’m an Apple fan­boy. But Apple earned my admi­ra­tion through years of pro­duc­ing supe­rior design and qual­ity and the iPad, for being a 1.0 release is no excep­tion. It’s this 1.0 sta­tus which lead me into this much skepticism.

As a Designer it’s all about get­ting the idea out of your head. As a Pro­duc­tion Artist it’s all about mak­ing the idea reproducible.

OCD for PSD

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