IMPORTANCE OF PROCESS:
SKETCH + FEEDBACK
Ideas that live in your head are trapped. Get them out with pen to paper, plans, and collaboration so they can grow legs and run. They're happier this way. I'm a strong believer and preacher of sketching first and working out the big picture before jumping into executing. Ideas can be stunted when they are forced directly from your brain into a computer.
Never do a disservice to the project by forcing a designer to make it look good before ensuring it makes sense. You can easily waste valuable hours getting caught in the weeds of the nitty gritty details or aesthetics before the soul the piece is in place. Sketch it. Plan it. Share it. Sell it in with reasons why it will work and then move forward with less potential to spiral out of control or even worse, hit in-computer paralysis.
Ask for feedback from your team, your clients, or your mentors before things are set in stone. Grow thick skin but not a think skull. Open your mind to said feedback, synthesize it, and choose the best path forward. This is how you grow an embryo of an idea to a fully grown functioning deliverable into the world. Congratulations.
