∞ The Emotional Cycle of Design

An excellent (and personally inspiring) article written by Matt Ward at Echo Enduring on “the Emotional Cycle of Design”. The ups and downs that I am sure many of us face when approaching a new project. I know that my attitude goes from enthusiasm to doubting that I was even the right guy for the job and back again. Sometimes more than once during a project life cycle.

From the conclusion:

More importantly, though, if we can also learn to see past the incompleteness of a design and rest confident in the fact that it will get better, then perhaps we can also circumvent the cycle—at least partially.

→ WordPress, Tumblr, WordPress

Deciding to make the switch back to WordPress was oddly difficult for me to do. I say that only because I’m very comfortable with WordPress development so it shouldn’t have been such a decision. None the less I finally pulled the trigger deciding that with the coming release of 3.1 that I would still be able to “blog” the way I wanted to (the tumblr way) and I’d have a platform for going a little more in depth from time to time.

That leads me to why I even started thinking about the change in the first place.

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Excellent, thanks for sharing!

It drives me nuts. We all know that you just got done reading “Top 10 Ways to Drive More Traffic to Your Super Awesome New Blog in Under 20 days Without Spending a Dime So That Your Blog becomes The Focus of My Next Top 10 List and Skyrockets you to Fame”