Low Fidelity Blogging

Hey everybody,

I’ve decided to scale down the scope of my blog posts. I realize- as probably all of you - that making this long, complicated and detailed "artworks/projects" (blog posts, complex drawings, big sewing projects, videos, movies, animation or if you are one of the unlucky ones as I am - final theses 🫣 ...) gets tiring after like two.. or one. Minutes.

I made multiple detailed blog posts with multiple drawn images etc, but the last one I posted was in February and it made me wonder- let’s use the same principle as is used while developing an app. I will scale down the scope. In app development it means reducing the number of features, complexity, or functionality in a project to focus on more important stuff - like the main features to ensure delivery within time.

Also in UX design which is my profession and I have no clue why I haven’t used it as an example first - we do low fidelity (Lo-fi) mock-ups (simpler versions of design of an app, website or a product). That’s what my blog posts are going to be for a while. Low fidelity blog posts, because I want to blog more often.

Austin Kleon (if you read any of my articles you probably know him because I am obsessed with this guy’s work since I was 15 which now makes me realize how crazy is the fact that I follow what he does for almost a decade). However he says in his book and also in this article:

“In my experience, your stock is best made by collecting, organizing, and expanding upon your flow. Social media sites function a lot like public notebooks—they’re places where we think out loud, let other people think back at us, then hopefully think some more. But the thing about keeping notebooks is that you have to revisit them in order to make the most out of them. You have to flip back through old ideas to see what you’ve been thinking. Once you make sharing part of your daily routine, you’ll notice themes and trends emerging in what you share. You’ll find patterns in your flow. When you detect these patterns, you can start gathering these bits and pieces and turn them into something bigger and more substantial. You can turn your flow into stock. For example, a lot of the ideas in this book started out as tweets, which then became blog posts, which then became book chapters. Small things, over time, can get big.”

So here I am, with a plan- to blog in the Lo-fi version and fingers crossed- more often. Because similarly as Austin, I feel like I don’t know what I have to say before I start writing. I find what I have to say during the blogging process.

See ya later

-BB 🐝🐝