Inspiration Anxiety

Inspiration is good. But the recent explosion of CSS and web design galleries has me spending valuable time looking through half a dozen sites looking for the latest design trends and new ideas. I am actually overloaded with inspiration!

Now I’ve heard of Information Anxiety. It refers to stress caused by the an overload or lack of information. I think the same applies to inspiration. So I’ve taken the definition of Information overload from Usability First and just replaced the word information with inspiration .

Inspiration Anxiety: Stress caused by the inability to access or understand the inspiration you need, caused by inspiration overload, lack of clear organization to inspiration, insufficient inspiration, excessively difficult presentation of inspiration, etc.