{"id":7685,"date":"2011-10-25T14:52:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T21:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/?p=7685"},"modified":"2014-04-24T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T01:56:09","slug":"on-creativity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/on-creativity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn\u2019t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That\u2019s because they were able to connect experiences they\u2019ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they\u2019ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that\u2019s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven\u2019t had very diverse experiences. So they don\u2019t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one\u2019s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2013 Steve Jobs, Wired, February, 1995<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn\u2019t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That\u2019s because they were able to connect experiences they\u2019ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[273,1017,68],"class_list":["post-7685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","tag-creativity","tag-quote","tag-stevejobs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}