http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/a-merciless-self-design-review/ A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:23:49 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/a-merciless-self-design-review/#comment-406 Mafe Maria • Mafe Maria Realigns Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:43:45 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/a-merciless-self-design-review/#comment-406 [...] I’m not one of those insatiable designers who redesign and reboot compulsively only for the pleasure of creative change. As the pure ISTJ that I am, behind everything I do, I must always begin with a reason why and some concrete goals to direct my work. Without such direction I just get lost and don’t accomplish anything. So, after 86 hours of work (some wasted, some not), I’m finally proud to present the recent changes to Mafe Maria. They all aim to solve the design problems I identified two months ago after doing some serious self design review. [...] [...] I’m not one of those insatiable designers who redesign and reboot compulsively only for the pleasure of creative change. As the pure ISTJ that I am, behind everything I do, I must always begin with a reason why and some concrete goals to direct my work. Without such direction I just get lost and don’t accomplish anything. So, after 86 hours of work (some wasted, some not), I’m finally proud to present the recent changes to Mafe Maria. They all aim to solve the design problems I identified two months ago after doing some serious self design review. [...]

]]> http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/a-merciless-self-design-review/#comment-372 Mafe Maria • Real simple, I mean it! Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:42:34 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/a-merciless-self-design-review/#comment-372 [...] This time, I actually came up with my list of problems to solve, and I’ve kept checking these design goals all along. But I missed one thing: visual goals. I didn’t write these down, but started designing with an implicit goal to produce something great and wonderful… Something extremely creative… Something that would represent me, and reflect my skills as a designer. Instead, I came up with some rococo design which I initially liked. But now that I’ve started coding it, suddenly it looks dark and opulent, and dense, and passé… Nothing at all like I want it. Nothing at all like my house… I stopped for a second and thought: I don’t really like this, and I hate having to recode my whole web site again. [...] [...] This time, I actually came up with my list of problems to solve, and I’ve kept checking these design goals all along. But I missed one thing: visual goals. I didn’t write these down, but started designing with an implicit goal to produce something great and wonderful… Something extremely creative… Something that would represent me, and reflect my skills as a designer. Instead, I came up with some rococo design which I initially liked. But now that I’ve started coding it, suddenly it looks dark and opulent, and dense, and passé… Nothing at all like I want it. Nothing at all like my house… I stopped for a second and thought: I don’t really like this, and I hate having to recode my whole web site again. [...]

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