My limited creativity
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My limited creativity
Does anyone feel similarly?
Having been programming since middle school, the left side of my brain has nearly complete control over the right. I have limited to no creative sense, as I look at something 100% functionally, not aesthetically.
Has anyone seen a book or have thoughts about systems of creativity? How to linearly and systematically make things pleasing? I'm not only talking about color schemes, but the general usability and arrangement of a gui for example.
Having been programming since middle school, the left side of my brain has nearly complete control over the right. I have limited to no creative sense, as I look at something 100% functionally, not aesthetically.
Has anyone seen a book or have thoughts about systems of creativity? How to linearly and systematically make things pleasing? I'm not only talking about color schemes, but the general usability and arrangement of a gui for example.
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I don't think creativity is the word I would use. I believe I am quite creative, just in a technical sense. Artistic on the other hand, is something I am not, likely due to years as a pragmatic software developer.
I don't think you can train yourself to be artistic, like you can programming. You either have wat it takes or you don't. Because there are no hard or fast ways to draw something, create music, etc, it's something you simply do because of passion. People either like it or they don't.
I don't think you can train yourself to be artistic, like you can programming. You either have wat it takes or you don't. Because there are no hard or fast ways to draw something, create music, etc, it's something you simply do because of passion. People either like it or they don't.
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I don't draw or make music due to passion.Hockey wrote:I don't think you can train yourself to be artistic, like you can programming. You either have wat it takes or you don't. Because there are no hard or fast ways to draw something, create music, etc, it's something you simply do because of passion. People either like it or they don't.
The closest to that is poetry, but all of mine is to make a point.
Unless money is passion.
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Creativity is for the biggest part something you are born with or not. So if you have absolutely no creativity you will never become a Rembrand or picasso
And you might not win the next web design award.
However, I don't think that a limited creativity is a major problem in web development/design.
First of all, you can improve your creativity. Buy a sketch book and start drawing every day. Secondly, being creative is only a small part in web design. Too often the very creative websites are very difficult to use. Many 'creative' full-flash sites with hidden navigation come to my mind. A boring website, but one which adheres to the general best practices (usability rules etc) might be less pleasing to the eye but much more successful.
And, you can always leave the real creative work to the professionals. Hire a graphic designer to design some concepts and/or brand/logo/colors and do the website building yourself.
However, I don't think that a limited creativity is a major problem in web development/design.
First of all, you can improve your creativity. Buy a sketch book and start drawing every day. Secondly, being creative is only a small part in web design. Too often the very creative websites are very difficult to use. Many 'creative' full-flash sites with hidden navigation come to my mind. A boring website, but one which adheres to the general best practices (usability rules etc) might be less pleasing to the eye but much more successful.
And, you can always leave the real creative work to the professionals. Hire a graphic designer to design some concepts and/or brand/logo/colors and do the website building yourself.
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Re: My limited creativity
That's not being creative, that's trying to make creativity a logical process.Todd_Z wrote:How to linearly and systematically make things pleasing?
The only way to redevelop your creativity, much like programming, is to go out and do it. You're not going to be able to get it from a book. Find some way to create expression, and the less logical the better
And if everything else fails, just go smoke some pot
