The Creative process

Unfortunately I can not picture things in my head. I think in words. And while that might not sound too bad, it makes it difficult to code things such as the flowchart below. This was a school project  which tasked us to create and showcase a new work that outlines the ideas and effects of both Imposter Syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect. We were instructed to create a project in the format that best plays ro our strengths and goals. I chose to create a flowchart as part of my website.  Initially the idea was to make it entirely a decisions chart where each "yes" or "no" on a level would take you to another level in the direction of either Imposter Syndrome or Dunning-Kruger effect. But due to time constraints I changed my project to a simpler flowchart where just the bottom row. was interactive and displayed information relevant to that side of the chart (either Imposter Syndrome or Dunning-Kruger effect. 

While I say "simpler" it really was not that simple. As mentioned, I do not picture images in my head and, when it comes to coding, too many words can jumble in my head. So I draw things out. I studied both Imposter Syndrome and Dunning-Kruger effect and narrowed the information to just a few key points of each cognitive bias. I created a simple flow chart using the Freeform app. I then printed it out and wrote key identifiers on each part of the chart. This made the job of coding with HTML and CSS much more straightforward. As Benjamin Franklin said, "'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.'" or similar sayings like "measure twice cut once". In other words, don't just jump in. Take the time to make sure things make sense.