Advice from designers for designers.

Lots of good stuff in here. My personal favorite is by one nobodyspecial.

.. language is a great tool for exploring ideas. Great design begins with asking the right question - getting at the heart of the problem you’re setting out to solve. Refining your design will start with discussions with other students - learn to be articulate, you’ll be amazed at how simply saying out loud what your thinking can cause a quantum leap in your understanding of your work. 

[I have only edited the apostrophes, I swear.]

Students often ask me for concrete examples for concrete examples. Here’s one from today’s twitter stream: 

Same topic, same conference. Which of the two starts a movie in your mind? 

Well. That was easy. When it comes to understanding/presentations/learning/changes, concrete beats abstract. Always.

When you make me see things, you make me feel things. Even things I may not want to feel.

»The eye of the mind makes a movie.«
[Jack Nicholson as Joker in Batman.]