141 - Gaining Respect As A Designer

How do you gain respect as a designer, especially as a young designer? Subscribe:&nbsp;ITUNES&nbsp;|&nbsp;ANDROID&nbsp;|&nbsp;STITCHER&nbsp;|&nbsp;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&rsquo;s respect This is AADA, and I&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&nbsp; And I wanted to be respected as a professional It&rsquo;s hard as a designer, and even more so when you&rsquo;re a young designer who might lack confidence or conviction Designers just starting out usually lack confidence in their skills And that&rsquo;s just natural, it&rsquo;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&nbsp; That lots of people don&rsquo;t respect design as a profession And people just see graphic designers as people who just colour in Lots of people don&rsquo;t respect design as a profession Because they don&rsquo;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&rsquo;t be a yes designer Don&rsquo;t just say yes to everybody all the time If you know you&rsquo;ve done something right Tell people it&rsquo;s been done right, and there&rsquo;s a reason it&rsquo;s been done that way Always command respect for your work Command respect by being confident about your work And confident that you&rsquo;ve done your job correctly as a professional Respect comes from confidence And confidence only comes from experience, and unfortunately, there&rsquo;s no shortcut to that MUSIC This was AADA and I&rsquo;m Craig Burgess Music featured in this episode was: Indian Summer by Lobo Loco <a...