who's judging whom - a designer's perspective

Who's judging whomVlad Burcă

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

Design is not something exclusivistWe are all designers

Design is aboutreflecting personality

There is NO“good” or “wrong”

in design

Designers are now criticalto the success or failure

of a business

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

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

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

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

Should I careabout it?

The skills required to be aGOOD

DESIGNER

SERIOUSLY?

There is NO“good” or “wrong”

in design

THE DARK SIDEof design

IS NOTactually yours

Your portfolio

CONGRATULATIONS!You are not that special!

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

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

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

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

Will it be approved?

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.

"Everything,and I mean everything,

is decided by the marketing teamat Apple."

(anonymous)

What’s wrong with this?Marketing sells.

Doesn't it?

The next dayI was looking for a job

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

“You should readsomething else”

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

I am left-handed

and a smoker...

and a driver...

There is no ashtraynext to the steering wheel

WHY?

New Tab Button is on the left

WHY?

This is NORMAL

THANK YOU!