Asa designer by profession, I’m sure you’ve experienced mental blocks while designing at least once in your life. Surely you feel irritated, angry and sometimes make you mentally down because your design deadline keeps running to catch you. Let’s be honest here, designers usually tend to have a short fuse with such mental blocks and stress. This can result in a loss of productivity and bad moods. The most common sources of the mental block are
1. Frustration with finding the right color and deciding on how to implement it in the design.
2. The designer is not exactly able to determine the best solution to a particular design problem.
3. The time constraint/deadline imposed by the customer.
4. Being overwhelmed with too many features to implement and finish the design.
From what we’ve talked about so far, I hope you will easily understand why and how you can identify and tackle your mental blocks.
Let me share a great design tip with you that will be useful to overcome this mental block that affects you all the time. To avoid this type of block, you need to have a clear understanding of your design brief. Be precise with your design brief. The better you are with your design brief, the less likely you will face the mental block of having too many features to implement. Also here some listed
1.Prioritize the features that need to be done first.
Prioritize the features that need to be done first. Usually, the more features you have to implement in a project, the more complex it is. Do not get overwhelmed and put all your efforts into getting as many features done as possible to keep you in time. There is no reason to implement every feature requested by your client or design team. It is okay to leave some features for another time. It is much better to focus first on those important features that need to be done for your project to be delivered on time. You can consider the features you want to implement, divide them into critical and non-critical, and identify those to start first.
2. Make a design plan and schedule.
The design plan will help you in identifying the features you want to implement, prioritize, and schedule them. In general, once you have a clear plan with features and features to implement, it will take care of the feature prioritization and scheduling too.
3. Use an effective strategy to tackle mental blocks.
No matter how great your design skills are, you will never be able to implement and complete every single design task or feature. Some designs are very complex and will need a lot of implementation time. If this happens, just stop what you are doing and find a method to continue. When you have a deadline and have lots of work to do, just try to limit yourself from doing more work. Also, do not stick to your original plan to complete all the features, but just pick the ones that are important and will give a better result.
4. Create workflows and use an effective design methodology.
With the design workflow, you will be able to easily identify what you need to do next, what stage you are at, and what you have left to do. There are different design methodologies for different types of projects. The techniques can be applied and used in all types of design projects. One of the most common methodologies used in web design is the six-week wireframing and prototyping. Once you have your wireframes, you can immediately start designing the final products. You can also use tools such as Wirebot to facilitate workflows and time management.