Sketch; with an actual pencil and paper. You think differently about your ideas when you aren’t constrained by digital tools. I find it freeing and I feel more creative when I just let my pencil go. Even if all the ideas aren’t good, at least they are out of my brain and on paper and I can move on.
I challenge you to try it on your next design idea.
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Indeed, always good to unplug