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river183
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15h ago
Appreciation post: I thought the 3am squint trick for checking kerning was total nonsense until I tried it on my client's logo
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josephb35
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4d ago
DAE cringe when a client asks to 'make the logo bigger' on a website header?
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skylershah
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6d ago
Spent $180 on a logo with 6 fonts and my client's son redid it in 20 minutes with one, help me understand what I did wrong
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josephb35
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7d ago
A print shop guy in Dallas held my business card under a lamp and asked if I wanted people to read it or just look at it
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jesse863
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8d ago
Just learned that flip phones always had the back button on the right on purpose, and I never noticed
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nathanking
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9d ago
Built 60 web forms with the label INSIDE the input box, then watched my dad try to fill one out
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vera_roberts
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10d ago
I tested two ways to name files for clients and one cut my revision emails way down
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ross.jessica
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13d ago
Rant: blew $400 on a color calibration tool and it sat in the box for 8 months
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ross.jessica
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14d ago
I called flat design lazy for 4 yrs, then a bakery in Denver opened my eyes
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joseph_lewis92
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15d ago
I used to redo the same homepage hero 6 times a week, now I do one ugly sketch first
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paigewood
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15d ago
I shipped a checkout button that looked disabled for 6 weeks because of one gray hex code
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kellyj23
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17d ago
Ngl I compared my hand-coded site to one made with a template and the template loaded faster than mine
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wadeyoung
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17d ago
Watched a Portland coffee shop swap their handwritten chalkboard for printed plastic signs and lose 15 regulars in a month
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rowan_thomas
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20d ago
My old art director swore by 5 rounds of feedback, I just did it in one and nobody noticed
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the_jason
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21d ago
A client in Phoenix asked me why our smart home app had 14 icons on one screen, and I did not have a good answer
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