Trying to get everything done is a bit of a balancing act. You need to focus on one thing, but at the same time grounding everything else to a hault is not really an option either.
We’ve got more than one product that we’re working on right now. It’s idea number 1 and idea number 2 mentioned on our site namely ‘A visual way to explore and uncover a city’ and ‘Making shopping a fun and shareable experience’. One is smaller and the first one that we’ll get out there. The other one is a bit more complex and will take more time, but they both work quite nicely together in terms of phasing.
Having spent a considerable amount of time working in agencies, balancing multiple projects at the same time is quite the norm. As with any multitasking you need the right amount of “multies” for it to work, but as long as the balance is right working on multiple things can be quite refreshing.
When you work on something bigger taking a break from it, even for a day can be invigorating and provide a break in which you can get some perspective on the aspect you’re trying to solve. There will always be times on a project when one discipline is more in focus and where the other disciplines have a bit of downtime. That’s what we’re trying to leverage and why we are working on two projects.
Right now there are a few small things I need to do on the bigger one in order for us to get to the next stage, but the focus is on the smaller one during the next two weeks. Then it’ll be at a stage where the main “doing” part will be on design and development and I can start to shift my “doing” time to the bigger project whilst being more consulting and overseeing from a UX point of view on the smaller one.
Tomorrow – Day 122 | Attending more cross discipline events
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