Avoiding Uncreativity

As a developer and designer, I’m constantly searching for inspiration, and most of the time it’s just not there. But I’ve found some ways that helped me to overcome the creative block

Staying away from the screen

We all know that social media is just sucking up all our energy and focus , even with that knowledge, we just let it crush our attention. It is ingrained habit. Quite recently, my screen time(social media and etc) was more than 6 hours. I felt that my brain was rotting. So I just put time limits and started to be in the real world more. And guess what, when I am not scrolling, I am actually thinking.

Be Bored

Boredom is the best friend of creativity. When you’re bored, your mind wanders, it is interesting, how you will start to recognize things that you haven’t noticed before. So whenever you are bored, don’t reach your phone to numb your brain.

Remixing is the key

Originality is unnoticed plagiarism. Everything is a remix. So don’t be afraid to take inspiration from others. But it is different from copying. Copying is just taking someone’s work and claiming it as yours. But remixing is taking someone idea and adding your own twist to it, shaping it in your style. And you should not take inspiration from one source, take from multiple sources, and combine them to create something new

It is the little details

One of coolest Motion Desingners - Eduard Mykhailov said that- ‘Creativity is tweaking’. And I couldn’t agree more. You make something, you choose one certain detail of it and experiment with it, rotating it 90 degrees, changing the color, moving there and here. And you will be surprised how much you can create from one simple detail.