Blog 4

"Own your mistakes. Never shy away from them; they are the milestones in our development" (Bowen).

This quote was in the Smashing Magazine article. It does not only focus on design it relates it back to every day life. It talks about fonts, consistency, user expectations, and contextual clues. These tools are helpful to guide us through our work. Like many things, we provide some way of navigation towards every day's life pleasure. With out some way of thinking or following through in a concept, we lose track of the true purpose of the reason we started it. As I read this article I found all the ads designs to be inspiring.

Onextrapixel was interesting in so many ways. It talks about bullying examples to the sexiest ways to gain attention in advertising. The ways seem to all be simple in the main points that someones eye can be drawn in. Sex, color, simplicity, no constraints, history and much more topics seem to be popular in when first drawing attention to such websites, designs or advertisements.

Making a reader not only aware of what your message is, but a feel of comfort or welcoming helps to focus a stronger point in your message. The designers keep up their craft by making the message clear. The designers focus on every day change by getting inspired in other areas and other designers to be better. If they have to focus on the same task, they wouldn't want to keep up the fight. Their task is to keep bringing the world more creativity and focus what today says tomorrow should bring. "There has never been a successful designer, or anyone of another profession for that matter, that has stopped at a certain point and said, "Good Enough" (Knight). That quote makes you want to improve things just reading it because it is so true. Us as humans tend to focus on whats better or bigger or easier, instead of just saying what I have I'm happy with. We always know the chances we have to grow and to widen our horizon, so every time we get a chance to change something good into greater, we will.

-Kelsey Krueger