Feeling indecisive can be a good thing
It's a sign of more thoughtful and well-rounded designs.
In your design process, you may face contradictions:
Form vs. Function
Power Users vs. Regular Users
Ethics vs. Business
While there's no perfect solution and always trade-offs, it's important to balance the interests of both sides. Being practical can help in making quick, useful decisions. Yet, accepting complexities and conflicts can lead to surprising and creative solutions.
Being comfortable with paradoxes will help you develop certain qualities as a designer.
Open-mindedness and flexibility
By understanding the complexities of contradictory ideas, you learn to approach problems with a more open and flexible mindset. This allows you to explore multiple perspectives and consider unconventional solutions.Empathy and nuanced thinking
By holding opposing ideas at the same time, you learn to understand and respect the differences among stakeholders. This helps you find and solve potential conflicts, leading to more balanced and detailed designs.Resilience
The ability to handle complex, unclear, and uncertain situations to find creative solutions.
The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind simultaneously and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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