>> I like to find inspiration in nature like birds and sunsets, or flowers.
>> You know?
>> I go outside.
>> I take a walk in the woods, or I go to the zoo.
>> I mean I can stare at a blade of grass for like hours.
>> Or, just look into a trash can.
>> I mean, when you’re looking at a layout of a comment section, you’re
>> not really thinking, did this designer lay on a bed of leaves all night?
>> But you feel it, you know?

>> I’m

>> like a casting director.
>> You know?
>> Like the pixels, they’re coming to me.
>> And they want to be in my movie.
>> Where I’m like, you’re Pantone 217 and you’re the star of the movie.

>> And then there’s, there’s Pantone 817.
>> And I’m, like, go get me a cup of coffee, you son of a bitch.
>> For the past seven weeks, I’ve been going over 7,000 shades of blue.
>> Where I have narrowed it down, I’ve got the tropical storm blue.
>> All right?
>> Then there’s electric cyan, right here.
>> Then we have the cornflower cerulean.
>> And then this one’s my favorite.
>> This is the Elizabeth Hasselbeck blue.
>> I think it helps to get a different perspective,
>> you know, look at it from a different angle.
>> Sometimes I’ll just, I’ll crawl really slow, like I’m an ant.
>> And then I take that information, and then
>> I put it into something like a text box.
>> You know?
>> And I think you can really see that when you’re looking at that form.
>> You can tell like, oh, this designer it, I can
>> tell that she was in the mindset of a bird.
>> And she flew on top of that object.
>> And when you’re a bird up in the air looking at
>> your screen, all of a sudden all the clutter is gone.
>> You know, it’s just, it’s just the screen and you.
>> And you can’t get that when you’re sitting at a chair.
>> You just can’t.

>> You have to be a bird.
>> I mean, if you want inspiration, don’t look at a computer.
>> Go outside.
>> Look around.
>> You know?
>> Find the nearest tree.
>> I promise you.
[LAUGH].
>> You’ll be inspired.