Learn from your design disasters
Posted by dan on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009As a designer and eternal student to the craft of design, I have taken great comfort in reading “Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failures, and Lessons Learned”. The satisfaction in knowing that even the cream-of-the-crop have their off-days, not always hitting the mark every time. I understand the agony of defeat from an idea not coming to fruition as intended. I cringe at the ever so public, humiliating creative mistakes and blunders. But I also appreciate that with every stumble, dead-end and cock-up, there’s a lesson learned and a necessity not to find yourself there again. Without the disasters, there surely cannot be any triumphs!
Dozens of top designers reveal the heartbreaking, and sometimes hilarious, mistakes they have made and talk about how they were able to grow from their experiences. Self-delusion, overcommitment, procrastination…they’re all here. Poor communication, missed deadlines, enraged clients…yes, they’re here too. Read this book and be inspired to find the silver lining in even the cloudiest situation.
