Bought this font pack off a discount site last month thinking I was getting a steal... The preview showed clean, modern scripts and bold sans-serifs. When I opened the files, half of them were broken or missing characters entirely. Emails to support just bounced back with no reply. The one font that did work looked totally different on my screen than the demo. Guess I learned to always test a free sample first - has anyone else gotten burned by cheap font bundles?
I was making a flyer for my neighbor's garage sale last weekend and I jammed every single item onto the page. Prices, times, directions, photos, all crammed together. I printed it out and it looked like a wall of text nobody would ever read. My neighbor took one look and said 'I can't find the start time anywhere in this mess.' That hit me pretty hard. So I made a second version with big gaps between each section and way less stuff on it. She actually smiled and pointed right to the time. I never realized leaving empty space could make the important things stick out so much. Anyone else struggle with this urge to fill every inch?
I bought this fancy font bundle thinking it would make my designs pop, but most of the letters looked weird on screen and I couldn't even use them in Canva. Has anyone else fallen for paid fonts that turned out to be garbage?
I dropped $13 a month on Canva Pro after trying to do everything free for like a year. Needed a quick logo for my cousin's food truck and the transparent PNG export feature alone was worth it. Magic resize tool also cut my social media graphics time by half. I had to make 4 different banner sizes and it took me maybe 10 minutes total. Anyone else find a cheap tool that just clicked for you?
Back when I first started messing around with design, I used to just sketch wireframes on graph paper with a pencil. It took maybe 15 minutes to rough out a homepage layout and I could erase stuff if it looked wrong. Last week I tried using Figma's wireframe tools for a simple project and got lost in all the auto-layout settings for almost an hour. There is something about the old pen and paper method that just forces you to focus on the big picture without worrying about spacing down to the pixel. I actually finished that graph paper sketch in the time it took me to figure out how to center a box in Figma. Has anyone else had better luck sticking to simple hand sketches for early ideas?
An old design friend told me I didn't need to worry about contrast ratios if I just stuck to black text on a white background, so I skipped checking my color accessibility on a project last month. Turns out the client's brand colors had a light gray background that made my dark gray text totally unreadable on their mobile site, and they nearly walked before I fixed it. Has anyone else gotten bad advice from someone who seemed like they knew what they were talking about?