Currently somewhere just a bit after panic and sleep deprivation but just a bit before full, outright epiphany

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I love this description of the design process because that’s exactly how it is for me. (Via Kottke)

Talk to everybody I possibly can about the problem.
Read everything that would even be remotely related to what I’m doing. Hang charts, graphs, diagrams, and screenshots all over my office.
Observe user research; recall past research.
Stew in it all, panic as deadline approaches, stop sleeping, stop eating.
Be struck with an epiphany. Instantly see the solution. Curse my tools for being too slow as I frantically get it all down in a document.
Sleep for three days.