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Dim the lights

Liv Strawbridge

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September 14, 2022

Prompt #1

Dim the lights

Research shows that dimming the lights while you design can improve your creativity, free you from perceived constraints and help you explore more risky concepts and ideas.

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Prompt #2

Talk nicely to yourself

“Be careful how you talk to yourself because you are listening.”
– Lisa M. Hayes

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Prompt #3

Get inspired with ogimage.gallery

Brand and product designer Luc Chaissac has built an open graph image* gallery, which took him less than 1 hour to build. I’ve already found a few websites to inspire my next web design project.

*An open graph image is the image that appears when you post a website page to social media.

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