The truth is that an unfinished creative project can have far-reaching negative effects on the artists/makers/creatives who surround themselves, their workshops, their hard drives, and their kitchen tables with projects left undone. Research suggests that ruminating about unfinished projects interferes with sleep-particularly on weekends (Syrek, Weigelt, Peifer & Antoni, 2017). Aren't weekends the time when we creatives get things done?
I remember a time when designing felt like speaking a secret language, a series of precise clicks and drags that, while powerful, felt more technical than fluid. Over the past three decades the evolution of design interfaces has been a journey from pixels to objects to concepts-each step abstracting away technical complexity and bringing us closer to pure creative intent.