Michelle Mac

My name is Michelle and I’m a digital hoarder 👋

Starting a brand new hobby can be tough. Here’s how I started a new hobby from scratch.

It’s Okay Not To Create

Leveraging Mental Models in UX Design

How I Reframed My Digital Life After Reading Building a Second Brain

Here’s How To Get Your Bookmarks Out Of Twitter And Actually Use Them

5 Practices I Follow Consistently After Reading The Bullet Journal Method

Twitter Bookmarks Are An Underutilized Way To Grow As A Creator

How To Design A Twitter Header In Under An Hour

How To Become An Expert

The UX Guide For Picking a Perfect Gift

Designing the perfect button

To Make Something Simple, Make It Predictable

This is how you can make money online as a creative in 2022

Creative Problem Solving

This project is a list of the games in my PlayStation backlog.

How To Do 3X More Creative Projects

How We Think About UX Quality

Naming Colors in Design Systems

Paying off design debt

5 Tricks to Help You Think Like the World’s Greatest Designers

See if you can change my mind 😉

8 Not-So-Obvious Concepts That Will Improve Your Social Media Posts

Why the UX discussion around Elden Ring is flawed

Learn how to draw and stop using the same Unsplash photo as everyone else

Building a Personal Brand to Boost Your UX Career

How to Deal with Information Overload

I love turning things into a game, especially things I usually procrastinate on. This type of gamification keeps me interested and motivated. It’s especially helpful on bad weeks when I can only do the bare minimum to keep myself progressing.

Beyond Social Media and Likes: How to Grow Creatively

3 things I know about growth

So many great opportunities will pass you by if you don’t look out for them. But what are signals? And how do you know which ones to follow?

Screw motivation, what you need is discipline

Over the last year, I’ve developed a system for how I consume different types of content. This system has allowed me to build a vault of knowledge I can repurpose into articles, newsletters, tweets, and digital products.

The Surprising Power of The Long Game

How I get even more from the content I consume

Unconventional Design Tips For Non-Designers

The ABCs of Idea Generation

A GitHub repo of Obsidian code snippets that I use in my Obsidian vault.

How Learning Works

Cognitive Bias and the Design Process

The Best Ideas Are Rarely Logical

How I repurpose my content including the tools I use

My own public digital garden of notes, thoughts, and ideas.

Are You a Maker or a Taker?

Modals on Mobile: How to use them wisely

Manage your video game collection for FREE with these tracker templates.

Become a better designer by scrolling through Netflix

UX lessons I wish I had learned earlier

Video games teaching you about life? 🤷‍♀️

A character counter, character generator, and Lorem Ipsum generator.

How to make smarter design tradeoffs

Best books all creatives should read this year

Communication Tips For UX Designers

Scheduled creative time, here’s what I learned

Regular Reflection Can Help You Become More Productive

My entire template including code snippets

You Learn More Effectively By Practicing

10x Your Designer To Developer Comms

How A UI Designer Uses Todoist

Subscribe to these 7 design newsletters and you won’t be disappointed

6 Procrastination Triggers And How To Overcome Them

How to show code examples on a Jekyll website

Can A Rubik’s Cube Help With Your Focus?

Here’s what I do to set up a Pomodoro timer in Obsidian

Building A Consistent Writing Habit

How I Use Obsidian Daily Notes To 10x My Creator Workflow Every Day

How To Make Your Productivity Systems More Efficient

Learn about the things that cause you to procrastinate and get tips to overcome procrastination.

Why You Should Schedule Time For Creativity

Part four in a series of posts - A Comprehensive Walkthrough Of My Obsidian Setup.

Life Contexts - Cues To Differentiate Between Work And Home

Part three in a series of posts - A Comprehensive Walkthrough Of My Obsidian Setup.

How To Write Effective Error Messages

Part two in a series of posts - A Comprehensive Walkthrough Of My Obsidian Setup.

The Creator’s Philosophy - Create Once Use Many Times

Part one in a series of posts - A Comprehensive Walkthrough Of My Obsidian Setup.

9 Apps I Use Daily As A Creator

A table of contents is an invaluable component to have on longer blog posts. Learn how to add one to your Jekyll website.

Build A Landing Page In 7 Steps

In this post, I share the step-by-step process I used to create a highly effective landing page to promote my latest book.

6 Things Pokémon Cards Will Teach You About Design

What you can learn from Pokémon cards that will make you a better designer

Creative Constraints Are Good For You

The code snippet I use to add a social media share bar to my posts on my Jekyll website

I created a custom landing page to promote my eBook: Design Faster, Design Better

How To Improve The Usability Of Password Fields