A Study in Visual Language

There are always processes to be distilled from a practice, project, or a routine. An experienced designer most likely know their design process to the degree that is necessary for them to explain it to their clients. These conscious processes may gain the name of best practices, and become sharable resources.

Within the less conscious part of practice, or some may call intuition, lies another layer of design process. It is entirely personal, accrued from years of cognitive formation and practices, trial and errors, and can also be distilled if given the occasion to record one’s process step by step. This process, in hindsight, is usually repeated throughout the designer’s daily life, professionally speaking or not, and interestingly yields different results every time. We may call it the creative hindsight.