Jack Cheng On Permanence

My personal take is that for any given task, our minds constantly shift between two modes: review and do. Review-mode give us perspective on the big picture and keeps us on track toward reaching our destination. Do-mode is focused on implementation—building, typing, moving pixels and making changes.

The problem is that when we’re in front of that blinking cursor, everything is so easily editable that we get caught up in do-mode. When we try to review things, we think, “oh, that’s an easy fix, so I’ll do it right now,” and instantly return to do-mode. We keep bouncing back and forth between the two without maintaining the proper altitude to see the bigger picture. To use the forest-from-the-trees analogy, it looks something like this:

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Jack Cheng (who came visit our studio today) on Permanence

3 Comments leave a comment below

  1. Such a simple philosophy but never a more true statement could be made about design. The review proccess really does need to be long and considered.

  2. haha no way.

    1. i just wrote jack an email.

    2. i totally agree with this!

  3. haha no way.

    1. i just wrote jack an email.

    2. i totally agree with this!