Hick’s law

The chosen topic, just made me laugh at myself for a few seconds! The way I worked during the initial stages of my designing days was to derive the idea, make a list of the best elements that will go well with it and ‘put them all in my work’! My designs looked crazy! Then I decided to feed my brain with all kinds of design stuffs. I started going through books from different fields of design viz. fashion, interior, textile, architecture designs, etc. It is amazing how a simple piece of work does miracles on you!

The Hick’s and Fitt’s laws say the same. This can be applied to projects done in any field especially in web designing. Now, why do we follow these laws while we can get feedback from people around us? The answer is simple. The law has given us a solution of how to make a design work better.

I would also like to share a quote by Ira Glass that inspired me the most and gave me back my confidence:

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

The reason for sharing this quote here is because whatever law we apply to our work, the ground lays in how much care we put in our work to make it better.