How to awaken your creativity?

Hellow Folks, how is it going ?!

Today i gonna give for you a good advice about how to start a ui/ux project.
Starts a project sometimes could be the hardest thing to do in the whole development. Even the best WebDesigner in the whole world have problems to get good ideias and to be inspirated. Those kind of things you couldn’t do/get whenever you want to, those are things you have to work out to awaken creativity. But the biggest question is “How to awaken your creativity?” sometimes this thing are impossible to do, I know, but in my experience i can say that listen a good music, read the blog of you favorite writer, paint something or even cook your favorite food, you could awakening your creativity. This tips could help you, but not always work! My advice is do not worry to much about it, write down all of your ideias and see what is better for the project, will that really match with what the user wants to ?! Search for some projects related of yours on the internet, the internet is the best place to get inspired. I’m not say for you copy other projects, but sometimes you can get the best part of your site just looking at elements of the other sites. Take a look in these follow links bellow, they could help you to get good ideas and get inspired to starts your ui/ux project:
The Favourite Website Awards
FWA claims to be the world’s most visited website award program, receiving more than 4 million visits per month. FWA selects a Site of the Day, a Site of the Month, and a Site of the Year. Recent Sites of the Day are shown as thumbnails on the FWA front page. FWA bases its selections on: Design 40%, Navigation 25%, Graphics 15%, Content 15%, and Personality 5%. As a result of the emphasis on design and graphics, winning websites tend to be strikingly designed and visually attractive. In addition to the Site of the Year, there is an annual People’s Choice Award decided by online public vote.

The most popular and the most awardeds websites you will for sure find there. You could search for categories, most recently awarded, awerdeds by dates, etc .. I’m pretty sure you could get inspired our get a lot of good ideas from there. Take a pick in the whole website. worth to check it out.
Good-Tutorials
Good-Tutorials is the largest source of tutorials on the web today. It has been featured on the BBC, SkyNews, TechTV (now G4), in the British magazine iCreate, PC World, and has been linked to by thousands of sites, blogs and forums. There are also a wealth of new social additions, including gravatar support, formatting of comments in discussions, activity streams for users, and more.

Got no ideias ?! start trying to use a tutorial step-by-step from good-tutorials, you dont must to follow the tutorial untill the final, but, maybe start using that you could find the base for you project. why not ?! hehe
Pattern Tap
Designers don’t design in a vacuum. They find inspiration and influence from the world around them. They collect other designs besides their own. Designs they love. Designs they hate. They pore over these designs, picking them apart to understand the techniques behind them, learning what works and doesn’t work. That’s what Pattern Tap is all about, collecting specific designs and patterns of user interaction. It’s a living classroom, where designers learn what is working well on the Web and why. But what designers are really doing is continuing their education and improving their design literacy. Which is something that we’re very committed to helping other product designers do here at ZURB.

My favorite spot to get inspired and ideas. Worth take a pick in this site before starts any web project. They have updates trends about the new webdesign area, and could help you A LOT to find the heart for your developtment. I used to see this in the majority of mine jobs, and always get something awesome from there.

That’s all ppl. I hope that could help you to start your project. Please lemme know about your questions, suggestions or complaints. Use the comment field to share whatever you want!

Valeu!
~lucasteixeira