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This is one of the reasons why, whenever you're designing, you need to understand the audience you're designing for.
Color perception varies across cultures. For example, red can carry negative connotations in many Western contexts, while it's often associated with positivity, prosperity, and good fortune in many Asian cultures.
That's why you should avoid relying solely on color to differentiate objects, indicate interactivity, or communicate essential information. Context, labels, icons, and other visual cues should work alongside color to ensure clarity for everyone.
Most people think character is something you're born with. It isn't. It's the residue of five decisions you keep making — usually without noticing.
1. What you pay attention to.
Attention is the raw material of experience. William James said it a century ago: my experience is what I agree to attend to. The phone in your hand isn't stealing your life. It's revealing what you keep choosing to look at.
2. What you tolerate.
The behaviors you don't push back on become the behaviors around you. From your own procrastination to a colleague's interruption — silence reads as consent.
3. What you commit to in writing.
A value you haven't put on the calendar is a preference. Timeboxing your day is how you turn intention into identity. Schedule builders, not to-do list makers.
4. Who you spend time with.
You don't rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of the people whose discomfort you've learned to share. Pick carefully.
5. What you do with discomfort.
This is the one underneath the other four. Every distraction, every broken commitment, every avoided conversation traces back to an unwillingness to sit with a feeling. Time management is pain management.
None of these are personality traits. They're decisions. Which means tomorrow you can make different ones.
7 habits quietly killing your focus.
None of them are your phone.
We like to blame the device. It's the easiest target — flat, glowing, always within reach. But after years of studying why people lose hours they meant to spend on something else, I keep coming back to the same finding: distraction starts from within.
The phone is the cope. The habit underneath is the cause.
Here are the seven I see most:
1. Opening apps before you've decided what you want from them. If you didn't plan the visit, the app planned it for you.
2. Treating your to-do list as your schedule. A to-do list is a wish. A calendar is a commitment. You can't say you got distracted unless you know what you got distracted from.
3. Using "quick checks" to escape discomfort. Boredom, anxiety, loneliness, fatigue — the urge to check is almost always a flinch away from a feeling.
4. Saying yes to meetings that should have been a decision. Every unguarded hour gets colonized by someone else's priorities.
5. Keeping notifications on by default. Default settings are someone else's preferences for your attention.
6. Confusing being busy with making traction. Traction and distraction share the same Latin root — trahere, to pull. One pulls you toward what you said mattered. The other pulls you away.
7. Believing willpower runs out. The Carol Dweck work on this is clear: people who think willpower is limited show "depletion." People who don't, don't.
Notice that none of these are technological. They're all decisions — most of them made by not deciding.
The fix isn't a detox. It's a calendar block, a script for the urge ("not yet"), and the honesty to look at what you're trying to escape.
Time management is pain management.
Designer struggle: you can’t enjoy anything anymore. 😁
•movies? watching the title sequence typography.
•restaurants? judging the menu layout.
•apps? critiquing the onboarding.
The job follows you everywhere. There’s no off switch.
Start with gray (white and black)
Maintain a good text hierachy
Use colors sparingly
Whitespace is king
Use legible line height ideally 150% for body text
Make important elements pop
And lastly, focus on removing elements instead of adding.
The people defending this mess have no conscience, no empathy & are cowards!! 46 children are spending another day in the forest with kidnappers & you have people doing some performative bullshit. It gets worse daily!!! #Bringbackthechildren
“That someone went to contest primaries and lost is not a shocker, the shocker is that this guy (Cubana Chiefpriest) went to contest in the first place.”
- Eric will calmly sit down, and calmly dress you down without breaking a sweat!!!!
“With all modesty, Nigeria has been presented with the best possible candidate. Politicians like Peter Obi come once in a lifetime” - Dr Datti Baba Ahmed.
A teaching meant for everyone about our president H.E Peter Obi.