Every week I sit and work on something, and every week I look and see similarities. Being a designer is hard work in many ways, but I will argue that the most challenging is out designing yourself. What do I mean by that, you might ask. Well while I might…

Do you remember starting out on your UX or UI journey and picking apart every brand's designs? Looking at how apple chisels their corners, or how Nike's website layout was just “too cool”? You are thinking to yourself at that moment, “I can do that, it can't be all that…

Selling your client on an idea is crucial to our success as designers. Maybe we are showing off an initial concept for a logo, being presented ideas from the shareholders, or just having that first zoom meeting to lay the groundwork. …

I'm sure we have all been there. Watching a friend or a loved one in a relationship that is obviously painful to everyone but them. You try to sit and encourage them to see it differently and show how life doesn't need to be this difficult. But at the end…

A few weeks ago I wrote about quality vs time. How just because something takes you a shorter amount of time than the next guy, doesn't mean that we are worth less but worth more. Although the roadblock that I find with this is, that sometimes we lose that motivation…

So much time is spent doing the same thing at work everyday that we think we know everything. No matter what your job title is, server, construction worker, designer, engineer, we can get so caught up in what we know that we forget how small our information bank truly is. …

Working in a creative field can feel like you're charging someone for macaroni necklaces as a ‘30 something’ at times. Even more challenging than justifying to yourself that you are worth what you charge, is understanding that the better you get at something the less time it can take for…

So I have been writing for a few months now, and the constant thought in the back of my head is “am I doing this right?” Which as a designer I feel is a thought that plagues us alot. “Am I designing this piece correctly?” …

I love listening to new music. New artists. New styles. It's all so interesting. Hearing what new things people come up with. But above all of that, how simple things can be so powerful. The crazy part is that when we listen to a song, like one by Billie Eilish…