The Layout #56
A layout of design highlights and thoughts
Welcome to The Layout #56. The substack about design that makes life a little easier with fun insights and key resources for you to level up.
Avoid the spike and crash and manage what you need to win.
Performing tasks that we love often follows a certain pattern, extreme enthusiasm, and performance in the early stages of implementation and iterations. Then follows fatigue and dread in the final stages, eventually leading to a crash in energy and mental alertness until the finish line is crossed. This is common when performing high-level tasks that we enjoy and love. We must learn to avoid the spike and focus on managing our emotional and physical energy as we try to complete these tasks. We should think of it as a marathon, not a sprint. Take adequate rest and breaks and break down your tasks into simpler forms to avoid dread and fatigue. Take care!
Make entry points accessible.
Learning new things or undertaking new roles can be troublesome. An easy way to start is to make your entry points accessible. An entry point means how easily you can easily get into something quickly. Is it accessible, easy to use, etc. For example, I want to run 5 times a week. My entry point will be my running shoes and clothes that will be laid the night before, making that habit easier to form. We need to make our entry points to new habits or skills accessible to us or we will lose interest due to intense difficulty or just plain boredom. The routine must be part of our daily life or it will just remain a figment of what we were meant to be.
Resources
UI Density: An excellent article that discusses the basic concepts of UI density and how to avoid the eventual pitfalls. Check it out here
HUDsAndGUIs: A nice place to check for HUD and GUI inspiration for your next project. Click here to check it out
Website Of The Week.
daylightcomputer.com/: The storytelling, visuals, and colours that match the context of the content. Exceptional for a new product that seeks to change computing. Definitely Check it out
Classic AVB
Warning!!! You risk banging your head in the office
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