Throw Your Work In The Trash! — Just A Thought #1

Thomas Trần
Feb 19, 2021

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Photo by Matt Ridley on Unsplash

I wanted to share a lesson I learned back in college days.

We normally put our work up on the wall and our instructor would go around to critique them. More often than not, our work ends up in the trash bin afterwards. It was brutal but reflecting back I think it’s a great way for us to not get married to our work and develop the courage to drastically improve it.

So…anyone wants to join me in this challenge:

Throw away the first version of our design/work in the trash — regardless of how amazing we think they are.

Do you have other ideas or suggestions? I’d love to hear them!

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Thomas Trần

I'm a designer and leader of Cloud Platforms Design Team at MongoDB