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Designers: your job isn’t moving objects around a screen. If you think this you’ll lose your job in 2021.
Read on for 18 more harsh truths about design.
A visual thread.
Read on for 18 more harsh truths about design.
A visual thread.
You can spend 14 years learning design and still be a bad designer.
The tools don't make you a good designer.
A good designer can design something on a piece of paper better than you can on a computer.
A good designer can design something on a piece of paper better than you can on a computer.
If you can't say no to a client you'll never be a good designer.
Related to above: If you've never had a client you're not a designer.
If you’re bad at communicating ideas you’re a bad designer.
Designers should write regularly.
Any designer who doesn't value correct grammar, punctuation and spelling doesn't value communication.
Which brings me back to the communication thing from above:
Bad at communication, bad at design.
Which brings me back to the communication thing from above:
Bad at communication, bad at design.
Design is a craft.
You can’t be good at it in two weeks.
Anybody who tells you otherwise is wrong.
You can’t be good at it in two weeks.
Anybody who tells you otherwise is wrong.
A designer that chooses to learn decoration over learning foundations will never become a good designer.
Catch: you could spend all of your career studying either of them.
Catch: you could spend all of your career studying either of them.
Somebody who is good at using Photoshop isn't a designer.
Somebody who is good at using Figma isn't a designer.
Your ability to push pixels around a screen isn’t what people pay the big bucks for.
Sorry.
Somebody who is good at using Figma isn't a designer.
Your ability to push pixels around a screen isn’t what people pay the big bucks for.
Sorry.
Designers are contrarians. They don't like thinking like other people.
To be able to shape the way that others view things you have to have an outsider's view.
To be able to shape the way that others view things you have to have an outsider's view.
As George Lois says: trends are traps.
Most designers promote themselves like designers used to promote themselves 10 years ago.
You’re 10 years behind.
You’re 10 years behind.
Designers still act like their skills are scarce.
15 years ago we had to pay for an Adobe license.
You were paid because other people couldn't afford it.
Now you just open up Figma or Canva which are free and do the same.
The skill of layout isn’t scarce.
15 years ago we had to pay for an Adobe license.
You were paid because other people couldn't afford it.
Now you just open up Figma or Canva which are free and do the same.
The skill of layout isn’t scarce.
Your best work will have everybody thinking they could have done it.
Your best work will be so simple that it will look effortless.
And again, everybody will just assume it was so easy they could have done it.
Your best work will go completely unnoticed.
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