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This is a fun exercise. Find a random picture on the internet and design a website around it in 20 minutes or less. I found a room and made it an interior designer's website.

It isn't the top of my game, but it's not too shabby for 20 minute job!

I use this tool to generate the color palette from the image. It ensures that I am using the right colors from the get-go and really speeds things up:
http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette

Anyone else want to join in on the fun?

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OK these are addicting. I'm going to do another one of these "speed designs" at home this week. I was interviewed by the University of Calgary a couple months back for a study on design and the creative process (for the magic, nothing for web), and he made some interesting points about speed. When you work quickly, you tend to work more freely. It keeps you from over thinking as you work and lets you try things on a whim.

He also presented another idea that I may try as well. Try and design something so that it is as expensive to produce as possible. From there, when you move into the production phase, you can scale back or find creative solutions to keep certain elements. It forces you to be creative and think outside the box in the initial design phase.

I'm sure PG would do one, but he's probably too scared.

So here are two more. The Cedar website took around 30 minutes while the Metal website took just over 20 minutes. Obviously there would be many elements of these I would go back and fix, but the point is to go for speed and work with whatever ends up on the page as you go. This stops you from over analyzing creative elements and just going for it.

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