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Today I'm sitting down to do something I have honestly never done before.

Started a blog post.

But moving into a technical field and a design one at that, I thought it would be interesting to document what it looks like to be a designer in a technical aspect. But what does that look like? How does one even come across things that are interesting enough to write about? What are some frustrations you’ve found?

At least, these are some of the questions that I’ve been asking myself. So hopefully, through this journey of writing, we will find out some answers together.

I’ve found that designing in a UX/UI environment is a lot like approaching a piece of music for the first time. You’re not really sure what to expect, or how to tackle it head on. The concept is just that, a concept. A really cool idea in your head that’s floating around like a cloud, but by the time it hits any kind of “paper” you’ve had to rationalize and understand your constraints. (which can be a bummer)

So what might have started as an elegant transformer of an idea that was inspired from that last Michael Bay movie you watched. Or even a cool graphic you saw that one time that stuck with you. Bringing that down and being able to translate that to paper is not only a skill that many fail at, but one that I find is harder and harder to explain.

Finishing up my design class, and looking back on the work that has been done over the past 6 months. While encouraging in a resume aspect, is also a bummer seeing how ‘copy pasta’ it looks and feels. I imagined being able to create interesting and intriguing ideas that would capture a persons interest, not something that looks like it was regurgitated from your last google search.

Don’t get me wrong, I completely comprehend the importance and impact of a beautifully simplistic website or app. As well as a solid typography and tonal balance construct. But shouldn’t we be pushing boundaries, and wondering where our imagination would take us if we did this instead of that? Why are we playing so safe instead of just staying within the rules?

This might be something that is made more apparent the longer you are in the field, but coming from another artistic path and moving into something more graphic design oriented I would love to be able to work on projects that are interesting in a graphical element and not just reorganizing a webpage to be more understandable. Now while that’s being said, I am excited to learn more about refining the simple and digestible things. Because learning how to do that more and more efficiently will help bring those far off design pieces to a closer reality.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this opinion! Hopefully through more exploration as weeks go on, I will be able to write about the clarification of this thought process.

Im interested to see if months from now I still feel the same way or have changed my perspective.

- Until next week -