AEA DC: Aarron Walter
Published by Josh Clark (@globalmoxie) —
If you're always doing something that someone else tells you to do, creative thinking can atrophy, drain inspiration. @aarron #aea
If your employees aren't creatively engaged, if they aren't inspired, that's BAD FOR BUSINESS. Encourage side projects. @aarron #aea
Tacos are the enemy of creative ideas.#aea
"The hardest thing is to get started." @jack via @aarron #aea
"Build 1000 things and put them on a shelf."—@jack via @aarron #aea
Get those ideas out of your head, put em on paper, save em for later.
"We have a fear of failure, perfection paralysis."—@aarron
Do creative calesthenics, just make stuff. Let 1000 flowers bloom. #aea
"I give myself permission to be creative thinker, not be obsessed about outcome. Just lose myself in process of having ideas."—@aarron #aea
The early idea process is fragile. Don't introduce judgments, let fresh ideas incubate and breathe. Think big before building small. #aea
Sketching is powerful way to juice your brain for ideas. The good folks at Adaptive Path use sketchboards: http://t.co/RPyGsZ8k @aarron #aea
Love Keynote for design prototypes. Great for mobile, because you can put hotlinked PDFs on device itself. See eg http://t.co/wz6w2QRA #aea
“@juansanchez: @globalmoxie Might wanna try fieldtestapp.com” #aea
More collections of mobile design patterns: http://t.co/Te5wZOHP #aea
The design-pattern work of @stubbornella "has saved the internet a metric sh*t ton of bandwidth."—@aarron More at http://t.co/t6XQe3CO #aea
Details on @aarron's design personas for sites and companies: http://t.co/dKKwX27t
Or better, his awesome book: http://t.co/u7A3h5j6 #aea
Great idea for finding side projects. Weekend Hacker is a mailing list to match ideas with skills: http://t.co/NlFlTPtv via @aarron #aea