Freedom to Fail

3 Ways to Build a Culture of Creative Exploration.

Shane Close
UX Collective
Published in
4 min readJul 27, 2020

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Illustration of person falling
Failure will happen. Fall gracefully.

“Design is messy before it is meaningful, chaotic before balanced, and filled with failure along the way.”

Over ten years ago, Nick Campbell summed up the design process as “Move stuff around until it doesn’t look like sh*t.” Of course it’s more complicated…

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UX Design leader, mentor, and user advocate with 25 years of success in interactive product design. Currently Principal Client Engineering Manager at IBM.