19/11/2020
In today's segment of what's on my mind...
I was watching this video on The Futur's Youtube channel. Chris Do, Business of design guru and José Caballer, an eccentric designer of great renown, were elaborating on the general process of UX website design. It was at the 3rd episode of that series that José said "Creative people what they do is see patterns, and the only patterns that you can see are the things that you know. So the best thing that you can do is go out there and see more things. That's my recommendation." It was years ago..3 Years ago and 1 month and 4 days ago to be exact. However the impact of those words could easily go over some people's level of understanding.
Avoiding insinuating that people that missed understanding the depth of that statement are/were less intelligent, I'd rather it be interpreted that their attention was designated to a different subject of interest. Naturally, one would miss understanding something that was excluded from their spectrum attention. To proceed, as a creative, the expansion and range of creativity is most likely limited by the knowledge I have of existence(due to lack of a better gerenic term) I have been exposed to.
Following this premise, I gathered that the level of understanding and range of creativity and design prowess can be immensely improved and expanded by exposing oneself to more things that go beyond one's own understanding. Which of course to accomplish, you must first understand that from the knowledge you possess, there is an infinite amount of learning potential and growth, regardless of your current experrtise. This is actually general to everything in life actually. However I would like to address it in the perspective of a creative.
In this realization, making an example that most creatives encounter, the creative block. Whenever a creative hits a creative block, in my opinion, it just means what they know is less sufficient for them to create more than they already have. Often you would see all forms of advice on how to overcome it, in some form or another, suggest exposing yourself as a creative beyond your field of expertise and learn or observe things that are usually out of the field in your practice or expertise to get past that. Sometimes it doesn't even have to be limited to creativity, they could even be suggestion on just changing...no....modifying certain routines that one would on a regular partake in.
The more I think about this today the more I realize how little I know and how much there is to learn... I would enjoy seeing if the The Futur would touch on this subject a little more, or even other creative advice providing platforms as well. The likes of Peter McKinnon, Matti Haapoja, Robert Marzullo, Yehuda Devir, etc..may cover once
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