Thursday, September 25, 2014

Defining e-Comm


Communication is the ability to express ideas. Communication doesn't have to be vocally or through written instructions. Communication can be expressing something through a shade of blue, a specific font, a image of an old white picket fence, and subtle shake of the head. The tricky thing about communication is that people are unable to see things in ways that differ from what is normal. People don't see the melancholy feeling that emits from that shade of blue, or the sophistication in that font, or the beauty of the old fence, or the love in the shake of the head. If more people learned to communication in more creative ways, then we would have a more creative world. 


Collaboration is the sharing of ideas. It's the messy scribbled script on a dry erase board. It's the discussion getting louder and louder and louder until it reaches it's crescendo and starts to die back down. It people talking over each other, but not in a bad way. It' s an idea starting as a small idea and ending as a skyscraper, but you can't make skyscrapers on your own, you need help, you need collaboration. 

Innovation is doing things the way they aren't supposed to be done. It's thinking not just outside the box, but out of this world. Innovation is fire. Innovation is the wheel. The Internet. The mobile phone. Without innovation, we can't move forward. 

Design is taking what you have in your head, and displaying it somewhere else. When you finally feel like your idea is good enough, and you show it to yourself or the world. Design is making visions into reality.