Good advice for procrastinators and perpetual project-starters like ourselves.
A mention over at Rhizome reminded me of this nice manifesto by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark, which now also has a great accompanying poster by James Provost.
The Cult of Done Manifesto
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.
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Andrea — May 9, 2011
See more. (There are three more.)
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Paul — Nov 5, 2010
Four Design Links is a review of the design- and ethics-related stories we've been reading online this week.
1. Watch this Presentation: Square
Something that caught our eye a while back. This video is one of the most clever and legible explanations we've seen. It takes a complex, multi-step product and makes it seem accessible to anyone. Bravo!
2. The Six Things Clients Want
A nice reminder of what the designer's job really entails, e.g. you aren't just building your client a website, you're inspiring them, bringing in ideas, and improving process. See past the product in the contract. What does your client really want?
3. Adobe's Magic Paintbrush: Context Aware Fill
Very impressive technology demo. The "uncropping" part at the end is astounding. I was skeptical, but it's not a hoax. This will be in CS5.
It's not 100% perfect, but from the look of things, it's about 90% what you'd get if you spent hours with the Clone Stamp. I'd call that progress.
((as somebody commented on the Adobe blog, with this tech, sites like iStockphoto are going to need some new watermarks...))
4. A Manifesto of Manifestos
I like this post and tend to agree with its observations. Sort of a meta-manifesto.
Needs to be 10 points, though. A nice round number. ;)
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Nick — Mar 25, 2010
