Who's Judging Whom - A Designer's Perspective

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Who's judging whom Vlad Burcă

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We are all designers, no matter what we do. Does that mean that anyone can judge our designs?

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Who's judging whomVlad Burcă

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&I’m a self taught designerI’m not sorry about it

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Design is not something exclusivistWe are all designers

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Design is aboutreflecting personality

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There is NO“good” or “wrong”

in design

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Designers are now criticalto the success or failure

of a business

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Too easily do wepoint the finger at people’s work,

rate it as terrible,and delight when others join in.

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Too easily do wepoint the finger at people’s work,

rate it as terrible,and delight when others join in.

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Should I careabout it?

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The skills required to be aGOOD

DESIGNER

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SERIOUSLY?

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There is NO“good” or “wrong”

in design

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THE DARK SIDEof design

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IS NOTactually yours

Your portfolio

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CONGRATULATIONS!You are not that special!

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“You can just whip that upin an hour, right?”

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“It’s just a logo!You’re a professional,

I don’t see why this should take youmore than an hour.”

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Imagine that you have to design a logo,and you come up with this

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Will it be approved?

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Douglas BowmanEX Visual Design Lead at Google

I’ve grown tired of debating such minuscule design de-cisions. There are more ex-citing design problems in

this world to tackle.

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"Everything,and I mean everything,

is decided by the marketing teamat Apple."

(anonymous)

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What’s wrong with this?Marketing sells.

Doesn't it?

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The next dayI was looking for a job

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“What do you read”(question form a job interview)

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“You should readsomething else”

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“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way.An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

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I am left-handed

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and a smoker...

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and a driver...

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There is no ashtraynext to the steering wheel

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WHY?

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New Tab Button is on the left

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WHY?

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This is NORMAL

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THANK YOU!