Fabricio Teixeira is a designer based in Brooklyn, NY. He’s a design partner at digital product agency Work & Co, and the founder of the design publications UX Collective and DOC, both of which are on my short list of always-reads. Recently, "after almost 20 years of doing the same thing over and over (i.e. designing digital products)", he said that "I needed to stop for a second and put down on paper what it is that I find compelling about our craft".

The result is a digital online commonplace book of insights and learnings about design, the design process and creativity. Too much to be taken in all at once, I find it's a great resource to use like Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies card deck. Shuffle, choose, read and learn.

"Find the ideas that scare you. Invite them over. Give them a try. Even if they don’t work: you will be less scared to try them next time."

"Create space for the eyes to pause. Consuming visual information is a choreography of the eye. You can dictate that rhythm by inserting the right pauses and white space in your designs. The pixels you don’t use are as important as the ones you do."

"When you present your work, stop describing what’s on the screen. Talk about how that experience will help users. Talk about how it will help reach business goals. Talk about what inspired you to arrive at that solution. Talk about anything other than giving people the unrewarding 'real estate tour, where you describe exactly what they are already seeing on screen. Design the experience you want your audience to have."

WEBSITE: The Musings of a Designer on What He Loves About Design and What He's Learned Along the Way