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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	First of all, there is no such thing as "designers block" or "writers block" for that matter. Unless you're depressed, but that's just depression. What's really wrong here is that you don't know what you want. This creates a paradox as in context the term 'design' is typically a solution to a problem, but you don't even have a problem, so how can you design? So, what you need to do is go problem hunting. For starters, ask yourself what you have to design. Think broad, eg: I need to design a web site. What's this web site need to do? It should showcase the company portfolio. .... ....... Who's going to view this website? What kind of websites will they typically frequent? What forms of navagation will they be comfy with? Male for female? Nationality? Age? Marrital status? Income? Holden or Ford? (No no, I'm serious, if you can definatly say one or the other write it down, it'll help) ... I could go on for pages and pages, but when you actually start writing this shit down and answering the questions, things just start to fall into place. Trying to find inspiration by looking at other web designs usually produces shitty results, and bad habbits. Design isn't about eye candy, it's about well, design. Need feeds function and from function flows form. (Say that 10 times fast!) On a don't design on screen. Design on paper. Always start with a pencil and paper, los of paper. This has a two fold gain. Firstly, it breaks the mold and frees you from any program specific constraints or habbits. Secondly, if you use a visual diary you also build up a record of visual ideas and develop a visual language you can refer back to later when you're having slow days. You might also want to try reading up on some design theory. Line, form, shape, point, space etc... Might help to get the barin juice flowing again. Loading...
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