Articles

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Protest.

What it’s really like to be a solo founder

Pain Points

no design specs? no problem.

creative or safe?

Being a unicorn is exhausting

confessions from a bad teacher

I quit marketing fight club

Down with producerism

A Tale of Two Portfolios

User testing your own portfolio

Tell, Don’t Show

The right amount of arrogance

Learn to love your bad ideas

Can you create great design in MS Paint?

Every designer is an imposter

Suffer for no fashion

Design is for other people

Design decisions are business decisions

How to tell if an online course is worth taking

Give bad ideas a chance

Why visual design is still important

Better than inspiration

Don’t work harder

Choose your own (stereotypical) adventure

Are you a real designer?

Old Loves

How to offer retainers, the holy grail of freelancing

Clients from hell are just normal people

Letting go of old designs (part 2)

Losing control over old designs (part 1)

Personal branding is a sham

Creative sellout

We were scribes

You are not the boss

Designers are petty

You’ll never be as good as other designers

License to critique

Design can do damage

Design goggles

Wireframes are waste

The design trend epidemic

Ugly sketches are better

4 causes of wasteful design revisions

Not that kind of designer. (My unconventional story of becoming a designer.)

Fire me. How telling clients no gets you hired.

Pixel Perfect

Feast or Famine

Productized

What great content marketing looks like