Modest goals...

[noahgibbs]

A few years ago, I was hoping to eventually get as good for random day-to-day work as a freshly-minted new designer out of college.

I feel like I'm there now. There are many new designers better than I am, but also many worse. I think I'd be somewhere in the middle 60% of the pack at this point, if I were a new design graduate.

I am routinely producing web-based designs that one might describe as "serviceable," "unobjectionable," "adequate," and occasionally even "pretty." When my design has a big obvious problem I can normally tell where it is, and frequently I have a decent idea how to fix it. My ability to steal individual elements from other people's designs is at an all-time high. On a good day I can even steal without looking obviously derivative.

Comments

[labelleizzy]

Good job, you!

[tshuma]

Well done! A lot of people would be surprised to learn it's taken that much work/time to get where you are, but I am definitely not one of them. Very often those are the same people who think they're good at it already and have some terribly blindspots.