Visual Reference Management

Expert guides on organizing, retrieving, and using visual inspiration. For designers, researchers, and cultural creatives who need more than Pinterest.

How to Break Your Pinterest Addiction: A Designer's Guide to Reclaiming Creativity

Pinterest is supposed to be a tool for inspiration. But for many designers, it has become a trap—an endless scroll of beautiful work that somehow leaves you feeling less capable, not more. If you have ever opened Pinterest to “quickly find a color palette” and emerged two hours later feeling anxious and uncreative, you are not alone. Pinterest addiction is real, and it is silently killing the creativity of designers worldwide. ...

February 27, 2025 · 3 min · 559 words · Mare