{"id":44603,"date":"2018-02-25T04:50:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T11:50:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-02-25T04:50:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T11:50:04","slug":"just-the-right-amount-of-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/just-the-right-amount-of-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Just the right amount of creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elephants flying and spiritual parrots talking is not something businesses or HR want to see on your portfolio.<\/h4>\n

Bear with me, in this article I will be talking through a little unpopular perspective amongst designers. It is to restrict yourself while being creative. That\u2019s right, I will be asking you to not<\/em><\/strong> do the one thing you have always been trained to\u00a0do.<\/p>\n

I became a graphic designer because I was good at a design software people dreaded to use and they threw that job at me every time they needed something to look pretty. Most of us start in a similar way. However, UX designers turn themselves into a deeper battle of several disciplines combined:<\/p>\n

Information Architecture
Sound Design
User Psychology
Philosophy
Web\u00a0Design<\/em><\/p>\n

And many\u00a0more\u2026<\/p>\n

Problem Solving<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Even if you are not a UX designer, I believe that every design role has a bigger purpose than visual design. It is to solve problems. For people in UX design it is a very well known concept. However, I\u2019m noticing young and talented designers budding out of graphic design and not reaching the other side. Many miss the main ingredient.<\/p>\n

Business Goals<\/h4>\n

When designers work on a portfolio, they usually struggle for content and then end up making a very minimalistic website with handful of paragraphs explaining a fish or a\u00a0gorilla.<\/p>\n

This is very far away from the reality of businesses that would want to hire a designer. Corporates often have a bucket full of content only for one page. And that is a challenge to readability. Now as a UI designer, you have to combine it with their business goals<\/strong>. Put it in a way that matches their brand story. They want to see how will you add value to their business or their design\u00a0team.<\/p>\n

Reality is a\u00a0B***h<\/h4>\n

A lot of times, you will design amazing things that should work flawlessly as you planned them to. However, working at a service firm is not all unicorns and rainbows. In UI and UX, your first concern should be the technology (programming\/designing language in our case) being used to develop it. Because we like to assume that everything is possible, you need to understand the working of the technology used in developing the product. Next comes the time you have to deliver it. How slow or fast is the technology according to that. It\u2019s pros and cons. Everything.<\/p>\n

Unnecessary Delight<\/h4>\n

We use motion graphics\/transition effects to be more \u201ccreative\u201d. Simply adding objects and animations for the sake of it will only leave your users confused. It\u2019s a risk, but you can take\u00a0it!<\/a><\/p>\n

Be very very and absolutely user centric. Hence, know how much of creativity can your users\u00a0take.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This article is dedicated to all the developers I work with who helped me achieve a greater analytic and logical understanding.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Elephants flying and spiritual parrots talking is not something businesses or HR want to see on your portfolio. Bear with me, in this article I will be talking through a little unpopular perspective amongst designers. It is to restrict yourself while being creative. That\u2019s right, I will be asking you to not do the one… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t