What inspired or motivated you to give this talk at WordCamp?
As designers we often forget about answering the simple questions before we embark on a design project. I’ve seen this happen throughout my career, and by answering simple questions like: what am I actually setting out to create here? …can truly be the difference between a successful project that helps my clients succeed, or one that creates a mess of a project.
How do you “create intention” in your job, career, or life?
I think the most simple way to help create intention in your entirety of life is by living a life that you love. This clears your mind to be intentional throughout your career and creates that balance between work-life and life-life.
If you were a WordPress Plugin, what Plugin would you be and why?
Gravity Forms. Because it is seriously well loved and beautifully well done, and I know that being well loved as a plugin would be a wonderful feeling.
If you were not doing your current job, what profession would you be in and why?
If I was smart enough I would love to be an astrophysicist. Because understanding more about the birth, life and death of stars, planets, galaxies, and other objects in the universe is absolutely fascinating to me. (And Neil deGrasse Tyson is my hero!)
What professional and/or research resource(s) can’t you live without?
Designspiration, Pinterest, Awwwards, old turn of the century design books, and my co-workers at Modern Tribe.