I’d been fight­ing with my own imagin­a­tion all day. I was trying to get my head in the right place to design something and it just wasn’t happen­ing. Photoshop was sat there, wide open, but nothing was happening.

I spent some time answer­ing people’s questions on the SitePoint forums. I doodled for a bit. I looked at the various CSS gallery sites. I even read A List Apart’s stunningly well timed new article, Designing Through the Storm to no avail. I read through some of my RSS feeds but there was nothing that grabbed me.

It just wasn’t happen­ing. My mind was in the wrong place.

I stared at the blank canvas in Photoshop. I stuck our corpor­ate logo on there and suddenly it wasn’t quite so blank anymore. Now, what if I was to run the nav down there this time…?

The next time I looked up it was 7 p.m. and every­body else had left the office. I had the begin­nings of a nice mock-up in front of me now though. That icon looks out of place there, though… nope, leave it, the clean­ers have started hoover­ing, time to get out.

I bet when tomor­row rolls around I’ll have lost the thread again.