September 2nd, 2010 • #passion#interest
How to find your passion: If I read this right, I think he’s saying you need to leave yourself with a lot of free time, in which you need to do a lot of stuff to find something you’re interested in, then follow up on it and see if something sticks. I’ll, uh… get right on that.
But seriously, it’s true. The same has been said for finding inspiration. You can’t sit and do nothing, waiting for it to strike. Like today, I’ve got a problem without a solution on the backburner, from which I’ve moved on and am working on something else. Taking a break from that something else, I started browsing through RSS feeds, saw an image of something completely unrelated that totally inspired an idea for the backburner project.
A blog full of thoughts and observations on making the web a better place, collected by Sarah Harrison.
Recommended reading
blogs
52 Weeks of UX — usually updated weekly with two short & sweet articles on a variety of topics related to design for the Web. Really good stuff.- A List Apart — I’ve been a reader since probably 2001, and they keep producing quality content, year after year.
- Asterisk 52 — The experienced and talented D. Keith Robinson writes about web design, game design, and more.
- Brown Blog — From Matt Brown and Tiffani Jones, a fearsome duo producing some useful and straightforward articles on web design, content strategy, and more.
- Smashing Magazine — I have kind of a love-hate relationship with this blog. Half their articles are mindless lists of lists clearly aimed at driving traffic, but then there's a steady undercurrent of real, useful, meaty content sprinkled throughout.
- User Interface Engineering Brain Sparks — The blog at UIE.com, from usability researcher and speaker Jared Spool, is full of examples, insight, interviews with designers from all over the world, and a lot of great information.
- UX Booth — I'm a new reader of this User Experience and usability focused blog, but what I've seen so far has been really useful and interesting.
