Design, Designer & Pressure. What a world!!
snapshot: real life experiences, tips & suggestions from from real guys on, how to design in pressure. i am starting this post to invite you all to share your experience & tips with us all, how to design in pressure.
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You know why all bosses fits a water cooler in cafeteria? guess.. guess..
So that you can keep yourself cool and could work more. How mean these bosses are. Grrrr …
lol .. i am kidding.. but this is a fact that keeping yourself cool in the warmest office environment is the top of checklist every morning for all of us. It is one of the biggest challenge for a designer in today’s business scenario, because your neither your job is to keep gluing envelopes nor keep ordering others….. (snoozing might be lol…)
A designer has is supposed to come up with new, new and again new in every job he undertakes. He works for hours and hours experimenting with colors, layout, designs, content placement and then very happily present that design to client and get a reply: “Try something else”
This builds up useless pressure, which make the work harder.
let me take and very ideal case, almost everyone faces. A very prospective buyer with big bucks in hand come to you and ask for something extra ordinary with very tight deadline more than his belt. What you are going to do?
definitely big bucks attracts and you say yes. and start cooking the pressure for yourself.
Don’t worry you haven’t made any wrong decision, now the only need is, you try to make yourself free from feeling pressure because YOU HAVE TO DESIGN. got my point? you have to bring and idea, you have to conceptualize a picture in mind, you have to experiment lot and lot.
so my 2 cents for this discussion are what i usually do in my daily life to keep myself calm :-
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Drinking Water. Cool Water. common don’t laugh. try it once. really it works.
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Leave this beautiful lady (computer) for few minutes.
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Do you have camera? I do have in my mobile 🙂 so if you have it too, take it and take a snap of your colleague, wife or mom or the most naughty kid you have in surrounding. (only 1 pic man, you have to get back to work too lol..)
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Don’t hang around lady colleague at all, instead go and wash your face. (remember?? the water’s magic? lol.. )
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Leave the work for 2 min and don’t see the tick tick your wrist watch. close your eyes, get back & relax for a while.
I am not any stress management expert or whatever. Here i only tried to share all of those silly tricks which i usually do daily and trust me, it works for me. It will work for you too until otherwise you are in alien.
See as a designer our job relates with creativity, experiments and thinking more and more, so though we can’t remove the pressure from our life (so sad..) but yes we can try to reduce it’s effect on productivity. After all keeping the mind relax is more important for us to lead the next design innovation 🙂
and yes, Please if you are reading this post, please don’t go without adding one more cool, silly, chinki pinki trick to reduce pressure/ stress. I need it. Please please please…
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