Designers don’t know what it feels like to be introduced to their own product.

If you develop a horror video game, you won’t know whether the game is scary or not before testing.

Doing is at least as important as deciding.

What’s better, TikTok or YouTube videos?

Which is more entertaining, a 2 hour movie or four 30 minute episodes?

That depends on you, the content and the moment.

5500K is daylight. It’s close to the color temperature of noon. A light source has to be so hot in order to achieve its color.

How warm or cool a color looks depends on temperature.

“How many designers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?”

“Does it have to be a lightbulb?”

I would want to freeze time.

Night always comes a little too early.

The top 3 phones today are the S23 Ultra, Pixel 7 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro.

Competition is fierce, they are all excellent phones. In terms of specs it comes down to display, performance, camera and battery life. All three phones exceed in these departments.

“Live” is what the band actually sounds like.

Each concert will sound a little different so each one carries its own special energy. When it’s live, it’s authentic because it’s happening right here, right now.

A color is more noticeable when it has a name.

For example: blue.

A sharper pencil is accurate. The graphite will go exactly where you tell it to go. A dull pencil is wider, uglier, and less prepared to make a mark.

If you don’t sharpen your pencil, it’s pointless.

Late to the party with a generic look.

When it’s designed for everyone, it’s appealing to no one.

The blank red space on a stop sign is what makes it effective.

You can see a stop sign before you can ever read it.

You don’t need to complicate it.

Finches don’t care which bird feeder you choose to buy.

They don’t care that you invested in one with drain holes, a squirrel lock, galvanized metal, and rot-resistant cedar. Feeders aren’t for birds.

TVs are giant black holes in living rooms.

Writing for 100 days helped me think more clearly and gain confidence.

It’s frustrating to lose ideas if you don’t draw or write it down. It’s just as frustrating to spend hours on a single piece of work when it was already fine a few drafts ago. My intention was to change this and change how I thought and felt about myself.

Hockey is larger than life. And the one thing larger than hockey is Wayne Gretzky. He made more goals, assists, points, and hat tricks than anyone in hockey.

Complementary colors are color pairs that are opposite to each other on the color wheel. This includes blue and orange, like the sun setting against a blue sky.

Analogous colors are adjacent on the color wheel. Think of shades of red, pink, and purple flowers in a bouquet.

My friends and I all have wasps in the summer.