#design

How Brands Like

Manchester United

Are Getting It Wrong

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Does your imagination rule your day?

I found myself in a supermarket queue of some length yesterday. You know where the other isles seem to be on fast forward, yet your line seems to be in a perpetual state of animation, moving in slow motion. Even sounds of the bar code reader bleeping seem to be dragging on for double the amount of time. Although none of the customers in front of me had much in their trolleys, the sudden realization on them that yes, indeed you must have your money ready to pay at the end, see

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Procrastination, why do you haunt me?

Sometimes we put off the things that add more stress to our lives, when in reality what we made such a huge deal about is really, nothing at all. The anxiety that can build up within a person over a meeting, deadline or something you have to do, which is very different from something you want to do, can really be damaging to your health. Maybe it is just me then because I tend to over analyze and examine every single little thing ensuring that whatever it is that I am have to

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Procrastination, why do you haunt me?

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You learn more from your mistakes. Make as many as possible.

I have talked about this topic before but last night I had a small discussion with my son, who is 8. He has been having a few problems with his reading. After a few discussions with his teacher I decided to show him something. I sat a hat on the chair and took a pack of playing cards. We sat on the floor and I told him to flick the cards into the hat. As he started the cards flew literally in all kinds of directions. Then he got one that bounced of the rim of the hat and I as

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You learn more from your mistakes. Make as many as possible.

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Keep it simple stupid

If I had a dollar for every time I have heard this statement in the halls and corridors in the advertising agencies I have been in all over the world, I could retire, easily, today. It is a statement you start hearing at university/college and it never seems to lose momentum at all. It is possibly the most guiding principle of advertising. Consumers do not have time to figure out a complicated story line or concept that is so deep you would need a submarine to understand it.

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Keep it simple stupid

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People ignore design that ignores people

I believe this line is very true. Look at apple products for example and remember the first time you used one or just picked it up. It has a sense of feeling that it just fits perfectly. Or it works in a way that just feels comfortable and natural. That’s great design and often we take it for granted, but we very quickly will voice an opinion about something that doesn’t work. Things that do however are the ones that slip into our lives, our consciousness and become part of o

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People ignore design that ignores people

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Write chapters to help others

Blaze a trail of hope and glory, Live out your dreams; create your story, Fuel your passionate desires, Light that inner most; burning fire, For the path ahead is yours to pave, Where ambitions wait that you do crave, Help others whilst you lay each stone, Cement the friendships; don’t go alone, For each and every friendship brings, Heartfelt help; that gives you wings, To soar amongst the angels keep, Sat on your shoulder when you weep, A life of triumph for you

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Write chapters to help others

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Tumbling down the rabbit hole

We all will face a time in our lives where we are afraid of what the future will bring. It seems that suddenly there is no floor beneath us and that sick feeling we get when falling comes from the depths of our stomach. Many things in our life will cause this sensation, many moments we spin lost in confusion trying to stop the world spinning for a moment as only to gain our composure. Were we pushed or did we lead ourselves down the dark and strange path? Some, for sure, will

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Tumbling down the rabbit hole

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Twitter is the internet on crack!

The internet has been most of the most technological pivotal moments in our history. From the very first moment that Tim Berners-Lee laid down his ‘information management’ white paper, which most consider this to be the birth of the world wide web, we have been salivating every day at the constantly growing wealth of information at the touch of a button. The changes and other inventions like DSL, MP3, cell phones and so much more (that list is really endless!) have all added

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Twitter is the internet on crack!

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You will not stay lost forever

If I lose my way around the next corner, it will not be a disaster as I have previously thought. No, in fact it will be the greatest thing that can happen to me, as experience has shown me through the years. We walk along a path we know, seeing all the same old things and sharing the same conversations, some call it a rut but for me it is just a normal passage of life that has us so focused on our responsibilities that we have an in built auto pilot that kicks in to keep movi

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You will not stay lost forever

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There will be clouds ahead, but I will choose what kind.

The trials and tribulations we face have answers we sometimes do not wish to see. Words cut deeper than any object and truths can deliver a deathly blow to hope and dreams. But know clouds of anger and self defeat will not clear your spirits sky. For dark clouds feed off anger, envy and defeat. They fill and swell, hanging heavy over your shoulders, like the world weighing you down. Do not feed these clouds. Never allow the clouds to grow. Each drop of rain from these

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There will be clouds ahead, but I will choose what kind.

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Inspiration takes many forms

Inspire me with a word or phrase and I am charged with passion with my next project. Inspire me with your kindness and heart, it will be mirrored in my actions as I move ahead. Inspire me in a way that takes away my breath and I will will forever burn brightly with motivation as I aspire to make such an impact on another soul in order to help them feel the way I do. Inspiration comes in so many shapes and forms that we often do not even understand all the reasons we are inspi