141 - Gaining Respect As A Designer
An episode of the AADA - Raw, direct and live chats about design and creativity podcast, hosted by Craig Burgess, titled "141 - Gaining Respect As A Designer" was published on May 26, 2017 and runs 7 minutes.
May 26, 2017 ·7m · AADA - Raw, direct and live chats about design and creativity
Summary
How do you gain respect as a designer, especially as a young designer? Subscribe: ITUNES | ANDROID | STITCHER | RSS FEED Music and links from this episode Indian Summer by Lobo Loco Electric Puppet by Mystery Mammal Line-by-line notes When you speak to anybody In any career really And you ask them one question What is it you really want from your career? People will say surface things Like money Fame Appreciation But everybody really wants one thing And especially designers And that’s respect This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess MUSIC I remember when I first started out a designer And I especially remember this when I first started out as a freelance designer I wanted respect I wanted clients and peers to respect me as a designer I knew I was right about some of the design decisions I’d made But why were clients overruling me, or not believing that I was right? What was I doing wrong? I was like every other young designer I wanted my work to be respected And I wanted to be respected as a professional It’s hard as a designer, and even more so when you’re a young designer who might lack confidence or conviction Designers just starting out usually lack confidence in their skills And that’s just natural, it’s normal And because they lack confidence That shows in meetings with clients and people buying the design Then you go in a vicious circle of not being respected as a designer And add on top of that a simple fact That lots of people don’t respect design as a profession And people just see graphic designers as people who just colour in Lots of people don’t respect design as a profession Because they don’t see it as a real profession, like a doctor or a lawyer The only way to gain respect as a designer Is to command respect as a designer Don’t be a yes designer Don’t just say yes to everybody all the time If you know you’ve done something right Tell people it’s been done right, and there’s a reason it’s been done that way Always command respect for your work Command respect by being confident about your work And confident that you’ve done your job correctly as a professional Respect comes from confidence And confidence only comes from experience, and unfortunately, there’s no shortcut to that MUSIC This was AADA and I’m Craig Burgess Music featured in this episode was: Indian Summer by Lobo Loco Electric Puppet by Mystery Mammal For a line by line rundown of this episode go over to …/ep141 If you want more updates about my podcast, follow me on Twitter at craigburgess I’m back tomorrow Support Ask a Designer Anything Ask a Designer Anything Website Twitter (@craigburgess) Ask a Designer Anything on Facebook Leave me a review on iTunes
Episode Description
How do you gain respect as a designer, especially as a young designer?
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- When you speak to anybody
- In any career really
- And you ask them one question
- What is it you really want from your career?
- People will say surface things
- Like money
- Fame
- Appreciation
- But everybody really wants one thing
- And especially designers
- And that’s respect
- This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess
- MUSIC
- I remember when I first started out a designer
- And I especially remember this when I first started out as a freelance designer
- I wanted respect
- I wanted clients and peers to respect me as a designer
- I knew I was right about some of the design decisions I’d made
- But why were clients overruling me, or not believing that I was right?
- What was I doing wrong?
- I was like every other young designer
- I wanted my work to be respected
- And I wanted to be respected as a professional
- It’s hard as a designer, and even more so when you’re a young designer who might lack confidence or conviction
- Designers just starting out usually lack confidence in their skills
- And that’s just natural, it’s normal
- And because they lack confidence
- That shows in meetings with clients and people buying the design
- Then you go in a vicious circle of not being respected as a designer
- And add on top of that a simple fact
- That lots of people don’t respect design as a profession
- And people just see graphic designers as people who just colour in
- Lots of people don’t respect design as a profession
- Because they don’t see it as a real profession, like a doctor or a lawyer
- The only way to gain respect as a designer
- Is to command respect as a designer
- Don’t be a yes designer
- Don’t just say yes to everybody all the time
- If you know you’ve done something right
- Tell people it’s been done right, and there’s a reason it’s been done that way
- Always command respect for your work
- Command respect by being confident about your work
- And confident that you’ve done your job correctly as a professional
- Respect comes from confidence
- And confidence only comes from experience, and unfortunately, there’s no shortcut to that
- MUSIC
- This was AADA and I’m Craig Burgess
- Music featured in this episode was:
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