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Sometimes we freeze up at the beginning of a project, and other times, we feel uninspired, or just can’t move past our usual patterns or our frustration with a project’s challenges. In this excerpt from the beautiful and inspiring design book by Curt Cloninger, Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process, the author stretches our minds and gives us four practical techniques for greasing those rusty little creativity wheels in our minds.

If there’s one thing those of us in the web-standards world have in common, it’s a passion for what we do. We argue endlessly about the best way to do, well, everything. In the final analysis, though, we have clients, budgets, and deadlines constraining our decisions. Garrett Dimon looks at creating a web team that knows how to find that sweet spot between harsh realities and our desire for perfection.