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The Art of Mind-Reading

Famous designers are known for their style.  The rest of us need to develop the magical skill of mind-reading.  Customers don’t know what they want (no offense, we know they try), and communicating a style can’t be done without reading minds.  Failure to properly read minds could result in a catastrophe; a very expensive mistake.

Oh well.  More yoga, meditation, “zen”, build up that intuition muscle.  We must find a way to see through the strange gibberish, and turn that into a work of art that resembles the mental image in their heads.  And then humility: let them think it’s all their idea.  The world of design is a strange place.

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