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Was just looking at the website I worked for for a very long time and one thing that come to mind, my gosh my website looks ordinary. The theme reminds me of Twitter, even though I love blue. Also, I've discovered the navigation is just awful.
I'm no professional web developer but I am a professional developer by career which focus on business web development, which includes layouts and themes. I even have trouble trying to have a great navigation/decent looking site for that.
Even my minimal theme looks bad!
How do I get my creative juices going? Any advice for a technical person?
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Try putting aside some time to look at other people's work.
Personally I'm amazed by the stuff on 500px, it's not web design, but the colour, shape, detail and movement captured in the photos is at least inspiring.
If you get stumped, don't just sit there, get up and have a walk outside, go to your happy place, somewhere relaxing, and go back refreshed. If you get on a roll, don't stop, for anything.
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| A13x wrote: | Try putting aside some time to look at other people's work.
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Definitely.
If you're looking for really great web design to inspire you, I'd go no further than: http://superior-web-solutions.com/
(Make sure noscript is off)
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 11:04 am Post subject: Re: How to be more creative? |
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| Island_Wolf wrote: | | How do I get my creative juices going? Any advice for a technical person? |
Go look for a whole bunch of designs you like, write down what you like about them, then mash them all together.
Otherwise just sit down and bash out a design, then decide what you don't like and do it again. After you've done that a few dozen times you could have something cool.
In summary: steal the best ideas or plain old repetition. A combination of the two also works well.
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Or you can do what i do.
Get really drunk and wake up next to something amazing.
Then later that day sit down and brain storm something creative.
*ba doom tish*
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| A13x wrote: |
If you get stumped, don't just sit there, get up and have a walk outside, go to your happy place, somewhere relaxing, and go back refreshed. If you get on a roll, don't stop, for anything. |
This. Its been shown in psych, if you constrain yourself to looking directly at the work in a situation right in front of you, you don't come up with anything nearly as creative as if you leave it and can think about it from a distance. getting out can have some benefits.
looking at other peoples work is really great too,
and remember most ideas come from a source, its usually combining one thing with another or a style or so forth, you need ingredients to start with, and some inspiration/interest/whatever to combine them.
I also think some people seem to be better at creative stuff while others are better at technical skills, and excellence in the two can be seperate. A bit of teamwork and having someone else contribute here can help. In making homebrew games, i've had a friend who is brilliant with numbers and building stuff needed, but hopeless when it came to design and creativity. i'd have an idea and make pretty things, general ideas and layout, but if i left things all with him i got unit cards with over a dozen statistics and he wouldnt even realise that if it ends up that complicated you've gone wrong already 
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The worst thing you can do as alex said is stop once those juices are oozing, so hard to refind that motivation!
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I have great success in drawing out inspirations. Latest project I got nothing but praises for my web application as I drawn some inspiration from western rpg menu to represent numerous data from spreadsheet (trying to display a record with 20 columns of data in a nice way on a page was hard) and somehow managed to pull it off well.
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