IntuitiveDesigns

In the web and graphic design industry, there is a huge misunderstanding about what we actually do. In general, the common misconception is that we just make things “pretty” and only do visual work. Beyond graphic is a wonderful site that fights against this common myth by proposing to take the word “graphic” out of graphic design.

So, what is a designer? A designer is a marketing and advertising professional, a planner, a strategist, a communicator, a high-skilled professional, and much more. Our only disappointment with this site is that they don’t actually suggest alternative titles to use instead of “graphic designer”. Maybe that’s for us to choose individually?

Few of us are so fortunate as to be able to do what we love for a living, but to do this is a challenge in itself. Most of us need the security of our day jobs and simply think we just could never make a living doing what we like to do best. Fortunately for us here at the studio, we do a combinations of what we love best, designing and providing solutions for businesses who need them. And we get to do it every day!

Here is an excellent essay by Paul Graham explaining how to do what you love best. Here is a small excerpt.

“To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We’ve got it down to four words: “Do what you love.” But it’s not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated.

The very idea is foreign to what most of us learn as kids. When I was a kid, it seemed as if work and fun were opposites by definition. Life had two states: some of the time adults were making you do things, and that was called work; the rest of the time you could do what you wanted, and that was called playing. Occasionally the things adults made you do were fun, just as, occasionally, playing wasn’t– for example, if you fell and hurt yourself. But except for these few anomalous cases, work was pretty much defined as not-fun.”

Link to essay.

This must be the cutest article about the web development process we have seen. This process is about the same as we have here in our studio, but we’ve never seen an article so creatively illustrated for this. Great resource!