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Creative process in three words or less

Just saw a a post on Threads from Figmaโ€ฆ describe your creative process in three words or less.

My attempt: Steal, splice, iterate.

Maybe I should elaborate?

Steal: Be inspired. Steal ideas from others, but also from your past. At the start, or even in the middle of, a project I tend to ask myself two questions. Have I solved a similar problem in the past and has someone else solved it? If the answer to either of those questions is yes or maybe, then I look at those projects through he lens of the one I’m working on.

Splice: This is where I take what I’ve discovered when looking back at what has been done before and splice in new thoughts and ideas.

Iterate: This is pretty self explanatory, but essentially I spend the rest of the time repeating the process until I come to a point where I have something that is hitting the problem head on and the design is coming to a resolution.

Starting to think I want a smaller bag for than my back pack. Want one that’s comfortable to wear, can fit my iPad Pro 11 inch and a general assortment of “stuff” like inhaler, phone, and keysโ€ฆ any recommendations out there?

Plus these two that are going to a local coffee shop for them to cup.

Two bags of coffee from Fireheart Coffee, one red bag of Brazil and one green bag from Indonesia.

Iโ€™ve got some seriously good coffees in the house at the momentโ€ฆ the red bourbon is especially ๐Ÿ˜š๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿป โ˜•๏ธ

5 bags of coffee from 4 different roasters. 2 with funky illustrated labels.

Threads is intriguing but feels like the wild west. Mastodon has the best apps but discovery of people is really hard. Micro.blog is comfortable, like sitting in the lounge of an old pub. The problem is there are people I want to follow on all of the networks but I can’t do it from one app.

In all honesty I would like an app with the polish of Ivory to follow people from, keep up with the timeline in, and post to my own self hosted blog that looks and is structured exactly how I want it to be. I feel like that is a possibility but one that is always slightly out of reach.

Now that Apple has done interactive widgets. I want them to bring back interactive notifications on the Mac.