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Shhh. Don’t tell the new designers.
Some things they just have to learn for themselves.
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3 min readOct 5, 2022
- It’s a lot of rectangles.
- 32% of your time will be spent labeling buttons.
- Blood will be shed over any question that begins, “Should designers…”.
- All the research in the world is no match for your CEO’s opinion.
- Perfect may be the enemy of the good, but that won’t stop you from trying.
- The design will fail on one platform, and that platform will be the one your boss uses.
- The biggest blocker to career growth will be the need to update your portfolio.
- You may be a user, but you’re not the user.
- The delta between what you designed and what gets shipped can be measured in light years.
- You don’t label and organize your layers because you work on tight deadlines. Other designers don’t label and organize their layers because they’re lazy sociopaths.
- A hundred successful happy paths can be ruined by a single unaddressed edge case. Related: no project plan includes time to design for edge cases.
- The best idea will come to you while riding a bike, kneading bread, prepping for a colonoscopy, or any other time you can’t act on it.
