In this issue, I’m going to suggest a few more ways to help you become a better UX designer and storyteller. These are free online courses, to follow the resources I shared a few weeks ago.

In this issue, we learn that Tarkovsky’s Stalker isn’t just a film, but an experience that powerfully reshapes how we think about time, space, and interpretation. In UX design, we can draw inspiration from this masterpiece to craft interactions that are more deliberate, immersive, and meaningful.

In this issue, I will explain how you can use Donald Miller’s StoryBrand Framework to create a vision board that aligns with your goals, tackles key areas of your life, and inspires action. I create my vision board using this storytelling technique that I typically use to help my clients visualise their businesses. With creativity and adaptation, we can apply the same structure to envision our lives and the year to come.

In this issue, I recommend several essential books for designers, each centered on a different area of design, yet all connected by the theme of storytelling. The goal is that you will soon become a Story Machine yourself!

While there are tons of informative articles about creativity just waiting to be Googled, I think we each have our own personal ways of staying creative. That said, I do have a ‘Survival Kit for Creativity’, so I will now share three tools that form part of this essential kit!