fruda - designer, entrepreneur, creativist, polack

What is it? Creativity, of course! Whether you are an online webmaster, developer, designer - or basically any person in a creative position, even something like a corporate job manager, you know you need to be creative. I’ve seen too many accusations of “web 2.0″ being just another trend, just another pink following the web 1.0 black. In reality, its quite a smart concept. Web 2.0 utilizes the web, making it more accessible, resourceful, useful, and funner than ever before. Webmasters are now striving to create unique new content that will help users, and they’re after their user-bases. Of course to survive, you need to strike profit somewhere, and obviously other things which you should all know that I won’t get into.

Creativity, though, is something that will separate a bad start-up from a good start-up, a good start-up from a great start-up. This post will be a compilation of a bunch of reading and unintentional research I’ve done over the topic from other sources after reading new books and magazines, as well as articles and such.

So how does it work? How does creativity … work? ComputerArts, a UK-based designer magazine, claims it is a commodity almost all people have - and the way to get it is by executing functions correctly. Daniel Pink, author of book “A Whole New Mind”, suggests something similar. Your brain is split up into hemispheres - right and left. Both hemispheres have different functions and play different roles in being creative.

Basically, instead of writing thousands of words, I’ll sum it up in a list. Let me brief you beforehand to know generally how its done. You can thank your brain’s rightmost hemisphere for your artistic side, which generates any creative and artistic thoughts. Your brain responds to creativity differently, and the worst thing you can do is to sit in front of your monitor with Photoshop open without an idea of what you’re up against. If you ever notice, ideas don’t just come to you when you’re sitting there for hours thinking and thinking and thinking. Here are ways to pretty much be creative.

• Take Showers. Taking showers is my favorite thing to do in the evenings if I happen to be home. Why? It stimulates my creativity. I get much of my ideas from the shower. I’m not thinking about what I’m thinking about, I’m not thinking that I need to meet a deadline with something creative and about how to get there.
• Get yourself outside. I’m not only speaking of social life when I mean outside. Take for example a trip to Best Buy. On your way there, and in there, you’re presented with a creative surrounding that stimulates innovation and thought. Fresh air combined with good product design, advertisement design, and basically print media is always good for your creativity.
• Listen to music. I’ll live up to what I do. I’ve never completed a successful design before without listening to music. Exciting yourself makes you feel better, and feeling better (my next point) is extremely good for you.
• Feel good. Feeling good is great for you in life. Studies show the average person with no explicit mental or physical defects can live to be 120 years old under several conditions, one of them (the key condition) is stressful and happy life. You have to be happy with yourself, the happier you are the more creative you’ll become.
• Don’t force yourself. This is almost a restatement of something I’ve said before, but its a must so I’ll emphasize it again. Don’t sit on your chair for hours on end trying to produce something, because over 95% of the time it won’t work.
• Environment. This is my last point. If you’re sitting at a messy desk in a dark room with an un-made bed (or if in an office, a messy sofa), fix it now. Make your bed (or couch), get those Coke cans off your desk, and set-up a clean workspace. Never cluttered. Also, open your windows and unshade them. The better the environment the better you feel, and the better you feel then what? That’s right! The more creative you are.

And that’s all, for now. There are tons more things to optimize your creativity that you can do, but these things I listed are things that all work for me and tons of other designers. So my suggestion is … do ‘em!

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