The headline of this post is actually a tweet I favorited by my friend Jon Mueller. I think it’s worthy of being a principle you tape to your bathroom mirror or laptop screen so you can see it every morning.
Posts Tagged ‘creativity’
January 3rd, 2012
Written by Mark Fairbanks
@markfairbanks
This was tomorrow once
Tagged with: creativity
November 3rd, 2011
Written by Mark Fairbanks
@markfairbanks
Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable
Whether it’s growth, progress, innovation, change, none of it comes without a price. The last three years have been the most uncomfortable period of my professional career. Not that long ago, I seriously thought my best days were behind me. This weekend, I will turn 50 years old and I am here to say I survived being uncomfortable. I got through it, and I love what I do again. This is a short auto-biography of the last few years.
Tagged with: Advertising, change, Charley Harper, creativity, Diageo, Digital, experience design, Fullhouse, idea architecture, innovation, Invisible Creature, kripalu, marathon, Meet-Meme, R/GA, Saul Bass, Shindig, social, technology, Translator
October 6th, 2011
Written by Mark Fairbanks
@markfairbanks
Here’s to the crazy ones
Somewhere in the basement, I have a photo that was taken of me as a young, long-haired art director in 1987. It is a polaroid of me sitting at a drafting table, using a burnisher to rub Letraset into a headline that would be pasted on a key line to create an ad that would run in the newspaper. There will be many blog posts written about the passing of Steve Jobs. This is my personal experience of how Apple changed my world.
Tagged with: Advertising, Apple, creativity, design, Digital, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Photoshop, Steve Jobs
February 6th, 2011
Written by Mark Fairbanks
@markfairbanks
Human Behavior: Green and Gold, Through and Through
I am a Packer fan. In fact, I love the Packers. It’s a weird behavioral thing that certainly needs some user research. I find it to be completely irrational. I yell and scream at the TV. I read about the team incessantly. I will text 6 other Packer fans just like me throughout today’s game. I am blindly brand loyal, even though I have never once—ever—seen an ad for the team that states its features and benefits.
Tagged with: Aaron Rodgers, Advertising, branding, Brett Favre, creativity, experience, Green Bay Packers, user experience, user research, Vince Lombardi
September 19th, 2010
Written by Cynthia Thomas
@deziner
Creativity: Thought or Expression?
Translator friend @raffel just recently captured and shared in a blog post notes surrounding a discussion that was held at lab hours a few weeks back. The topic: the definition of creativity. The discussion was spawned from the talk myself and @rohdesign did for @mke_ux about sketching. In the talk, we discussed the notion that sketching is not drawing, and that people discount their ability to be creative because of their inability to draw well. My stance? Creativity is the act of thinking outside the the expected.
