In Development

Here I have a painting in progress of another future city. It's a wider canvas size than I've been using of late. Wider compositions feel so different to me than narrow and I wonder what influences that impression. Movies? Comics? Nature and how it feels different because looking at a wider thing takes more than one glance?

This painting might go in my store if I keep liking where it's going.

Guitar Fretter

Since changing from daily posts to weekly and as I mentioned in a recent newsletter how Lean Into Art is on hiatus for now, I've been able to put a lot more time on fewer projects. Most of that time is going into Guitar Fretter's new full version and free version.

Guitar Fretter's big updates will be ready to publish soon. This is the part of the creative cycle that I have practiced getting through because I've experienced getting stuck. I'm moving forward with lots of pieces of this project most every day. How is that a recipe for getting stuck? It's the feeling of accomplishment I think where some of the trouble starts. I start to feel like I'm done with the project and yet my to-do list isn't done for the project.

Kate's Store

Also I've been collaborating with Kate Shields Stenzinger on some product designs and illustrations. She sold her whole recent batch of candles and selling shirts and mugs in her EarthKat Studio store on Etsy.

Articles and Workshops

Then there's the UX writing and teaching. I have a few articles in progress at different levels of clarity related to these topics:

• collaborative trust
• also: how I'm stuck on the topic of trust with multiple abandoned drafts
• inclusion and applied learning are my favorite UX practices
• confidence and safety of questions, environments that welcome questions
• UX for artists
• ideas to explore when companies avoid communication with their audience: on purpose or incidental

Creative process and journaling topics are coming up on my writing sessions too.

One thing I've not moved forward yet is my pitch for the UX Mindset book. Still want to write that book and work with a publisher that cares deeply about encouraging leaders in business, tech, art, and design that they can learn a lot while serving their audiences by including UX as a way to look at their work.

Which of these topics sparks your curiosity?

Getting someone curious without urgency is about the most intense form of click bait I hope to cause. Your comments on this post are better than a simple poll or vote system. Which of these topics and projects are you most curious to learn more about or have me develop articles?