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Why mind wandering is good for your creativity

Idea to Value

This incubation state is one of the primary aspects of the Creative Process. In one of the most important recent pieces of research into creativity, Baird et al (2012) wanted to investigate how different activities affected creative performance. The people who had no break fared worst of all.

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Creativity Must Guide the Data-Driven Design Process

Boxes and Arrows

Instead of those subjective measures, you can give them data: click-through and abandonment rates, statistics on the number of installs, retention and referral counts, user paths, cohort analyses, A/B comparisons, and countless other analytical riches. He didn’t design devices and operating systems by polling users or hosting focus groups.

Data 101