Dustin writes (but he has no permalinks) in response to my post about creativity and selection:
I’ve always thought I wasn’t a very good designer, because I have absolutely no ability to visualize something and then create it; I have to draw or lay it out in a million different ways, iterating, until I find one that looks okay. But maybe that’s a valid approach after all?
Certainly! And I realize now that the ability to visualize must be something that comes with experience from either doing, or having studied lots of things other people have done. Or by imitating what other people have done.