Observation
“We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak.” —Epictetus (AD 55 – c.135)
Let Us start with the definition of Observation ‘the action or process of closely observing or monitoring something or Someone’. I am going to talk about ‘a timely observation’ and ‘Your observations in Designs‘.
A Timely Observation
On a freezing, wet winter day at the turn of the century, Mary Anderson was riding in a streetcar on a visit to New York City when she noticed that the driver could hardly see through his sleet-encrusted front windshield.
Although the trolley’s front window was designed for lousy weather visibility it was split into parts so that the driver could open it, moving the snow or rain-covered section out of his line of vision, the multi-pane windshield system worked very poorly. It exposed the driver and passengers to the inclement weather.
This was the moment when Anderson observed the situation and started sketching a wiper to clean the windshield. And thus the windshield wiper blade was invented.
‘Which inspired me’
Every day before going to sleep, I just recollect all the bad, decent and best designs that I came across all day. Then I start thinking about how I could improve any poor design with the decent & best elements I observed until now.
Your observations in Designs
In recent times, I was working on the digital application. After completing my designs, I noticed, there were new elements included. Then I thought back as to where I had come across this similar element, and finally, I recollected the same. That allowed me to put this element into my design.
From this, I noticed that the designs we make would not come out of thin air. They are actually our observations that we have made until now.
The longer we observe from our surroundings, the more we can collect newer elements/thoughts. And the more we collect such things, the better we can update our designs.
The question comes how we can Improve Observation? one ‘Look Closer’, second ‘Look broader’ and third ‘It is your way of observation’.
