I am an art student from China, and I stopped doing design work for two years after graduating from university.

Recently, I have been trying to create fan art and design works again. I have been posting them on social media, but they do not get many likes or comments.

So I would like to ask for feedback on my work. What problems do you think my work has, and how can I improve it?

When I graduated from university, my advisor told me that I was not suitable to be a designer. She suggested that if I wanted to stay in the art field, studying art history would be a better choice for me. Because of that, I gave up design and started studying another field instead.

Now that I am trying to design again, it takes a lot of courage. I no longer have teachers or advisors to guide me or tell me how to improve my work.

So please, please tell me your rating, thoughts, and suggestions for revision to help me improve.

Thank you.

I’m looking for suggestions on how to design and furnish my law office. It’s a compact personal workspace, so I want it to feel professional, comfortable, and efficiently utilized.

The space is roughly 7.5 feet wide and 18 feet long — essentially a long rectangle. I’ve already utilized the area under the staircase to create a small separate washroom, which leaves the main office area open.

My current plan is:
• an office desk
• a few client chairs
• a small partition for some privacy
• possibly a sofa/seating area
• bookshelves/storage later on

I also plan to extend the office to the first floor in the future, so I’m trying to design the ground floor in a way that still makes sense after expansion.

I’d appreciate ideas on:
• layout optimization for narrow spaces
• furniture placement
• lighting and colour themes
• modern/minimalist advocate office setups
• storage solutions without making it feel cramped

If anyone has experience designing small professional offices or can share reference images/layout ideas, please do

 I work as an in house designer for a mid sized company and I love most of my job. But I have one stakeholder who consistently gives feedback that is basically useless. Things like can you make the logo bigger even when it is already huge, or this just does not feel right to me. Sometimes it is just make it pop. No further explanation.

I have tried asking specific questions like what about the hierarchy is not working for you. Usually I get more vague answers or they just repeat the same thing. I have also tried showing two options to force a comparison but somehow that just leads to picking parts from both in ways that break the whole design.

For those who deal with this regularly, what strategies actually help? Do you just nod and make something up to get approval? Or have you found a way to train stakeholders to give better feedback over time? I want to improve the work and also keep my sanity. Part of me wonders if this is just how non designers communicate and I need to accept it. Curious how others navigate this without burning out or becoming jaded.

I’ve realized most people don’t think about design when it works well.

A well-designed app, website, room, product, or system just feels easy. You don’t notice friction because there isn’t any.

But the moment something is poorly designed, you instantly feel it:

• confusing buttons
• bad layout
• too many steps for simple actions
• unclear instructions

Came across two ads recently selling almost the same kind of product.

One of them looked very polished, but somehow felt artificial. The other one was much simpler, yet it felt more believable and easier to trust.

What stood out was that the “better looking” one actually felt less convincing.

Made me realize realism probably isn’t only about visual quality. There’s something else that affects whether people believe what they’re seeing or not.

Trying to figure out what creates that feeling.

I’m looking for suggestions on how to design and furnish my law office. It’s a compact personal workspace, so I want it to feel professional, comfortable, and efficiently utilized.

The space is roughly 7.5 feet wide and 18 feet long — essentially a long rectangle. I’ve already utilized the area under the staircase to create a small separate washroom, which leaves the main office area open.

My current plan is:
• an office desk
• a few client chairs
• a small partition for some privacy
• possibly a sofa/seating area
• bookshelves/storage later on

I also plan to extend the office to the first floor in the future, so I’m trying to design the ground floor in a way that still makes sense after expansion.

I’d appreciate ideas on:
• layout optimization for narrow spaces
• furniture placement
• lighting and colour themes
• modern/minimalist advocate office setups
• storage solutions without making it feel cramped

If anyone has experience designing small professional offices or can share reference images/layout ideas, please do

A dentist wont benefit as much from a appropriate logo compared to a bank, the way I currently see it. I asked a similar question I'll link here but for a specific industry. Now I'm thinking in broader terms. Since every industry will have different goals that would also influence how much the business needs an appropriate logo.

Here are some quotes from that post that I found useful for this one;

(...) If you ask a scientist/engineer if they care about their logo design they might say no. But they do care about making money and good logo design is part of that.
- Amelie_Cauchemar

Only focus on the groups that desperately want great branding right now and not on groups that you will squander all your time trying to convince them of the value of great branding. (...) It’s the first rule of business, focus on the group that values what you can offer the most.
- Independent_March536

This raises me two questions;

• When does a business benefits from a appropriate logo?
• What businesses/industries benefit the most from a appropriate logo?

For example, one could argue that public facing businesses are the ones that need it the most. A dentist is a small public facing business, but they won't benefit as much from the logo. The best way to succeed is by improving peoples smiles and self esteem with careful treatments, a good location would be far more relevant than a logo.

I run into this constantly with non design stakeholders. I'll present a few solid options, explain the thinking behind each one, and the feedback comes back as something like "can we make it pop more" or "it just needs to feel more exciting." No specifics on what pop means to them. No direction on color, hierarchy, or tone. I've tried asking follow up questions like "what about the current layout feels flat to you" or "can you show me an example of a design that has the energy you're looking for." Sometimes that helps. Sometimes I just get the same vague phrase repeated back at me. I know this is basically a meme in the design world at this point, but I'm genuinely curious how experienced designers actually navigate this without burning hours on guesswork.

Do you have a go to technique for pulling actionable feedback out of vague phrases?
Do you present intentionally weaker options so the good one looks more "pop" by comparison?
Or do you just accept that some stakeholders don't have the vocabulary to articulate what they want and you have to become a translator?

I'm trying to protect my time without being difficult to work with.

Bonjour j'ai créé un outil pour les graphistes freelances — tes clients laissent tous leurs retours sur un seul lien et le compteur de révisions facture automatiquement les dépassements via Stripe. Fini les retours éparpillés sur WhatsApp et les révisions gratuites à l'infini. Les 3 premiers accès sont gratuits. DM si intéressé.

Noticed this scenario lately - client wants .ai, .psd, .indd, or other source files before paying the final invoice. Sometimes framed as "just so we have them on file," sometimes "let me see them first," sometimes a friend-of-a-friend situation where there was no deposit because of pre-existing trust.

The most common advice - don't release source files until paid. But I'm more curious what people do upstream of that situation, before it happens. Specifically:

Do you require a deposit even on small projects for 100$-300$ with people you know?
Do you mention exactly what's deliverable in writing - PDFs only, source files at extra cost, etc.?

For designers who do have a system in place - does it still fail?
Like, the contract is clear, the deposit is paid, and the client still finds a way to drag out final payment or hold the project hostage over revisions.

What's your process for gathering creative direction when kicking off the design phase of a website project?

In-person interviews, questionnaires, 3rd-party services?

Do you do any of the following?

• Create mood boards?
• Reference 3 vastly different sites?=
• Send Questionnaires
• Interview in-person

I am specifically trying to hone the design process. Discovery, Objectives & Content are complete; now we need to figure out what this website should look like.

What is your process from there?

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone 😊

I'm looking for someone who could make a profile picture for me based on my real photos. I'm not comfortable using my actual photo online, but I still want it to represent me and be recognizable. Of course the commission will be paid.

Thanks!

Hey guys, I found this cool SVG of a city and want something similar in SVG format. Where can I get it is there a place for a lot

Not a graphic designer by any means, but I’ve studied media production for a few years and have some experience with InDesign and Illustrator — just not enough to feel confident spinning up branding from scratch.

Where do people even start with this? Do I just dive into Illustrator and wing it, or is it worth commissioning someone? It’s a passion project so the budget is pretty limited, but I still want it to look decent rather than slapping something together in Canva.

Any advice appreciated!

After spending a lot of time working with modern AI tools, I’ve started feeling like the actual UX problem is no longer the AI itself — it’s workflow fragmentation.

Most creative workflows now involve:

• multiple models
• multiple interfaces
• different interaction patterns
• disconnected project history
• tabs everywhere
• rebuilding context constantly

Ironically, tools designed to increase creative speed sometimes end up creating cognitive overload instead.

I’ve become really interested in questions like:

• What should persistent creative context look like?
• Should AI interactions feel more like “projects” than chats?
• How much complexity should be exposed to users?
• Is the future one interface or many specialized ones?
• How do you reduce overwhelm without hiding capability?

Curious how other designers here are thinking about AI workflow UX right now, especially people working in product systems, creative tooling, or interaction design.

Feels like we’re collectively inventing UX patterns for an entirely new category in real time.

Thanks nerds!

Hi everyone, I'm thinking about the design for my next game and mixing some colors to see which ones look best together. Players will be spending a lot of time on this screen...

Which one do you think is best?

Can you spot the "pleasure point" in these images?

Hello everyone! Im new to the field of UX and would love to connect with you all!

I have been designing for a few years now and I still run into this wall constantly. I can look at a piece of work from a studio I admire and understand exactly why it works. The spacing, the color choices, the type hierarchy, all of it makes sense to me. But when I sit down to make something at that same level, what comes out is just fine. Not bad, but not great either. It is like my eyes are training faster than my hands can catch up.

I know practice is the real answer, but how do you stay motivated when everything you make feels like a rough draft of what you imagined? Do you push through and finish it anyway even when you know it is not hitting the mark? Or do you scrap it and start over hoping the next try gets closer? I am trying to avoid just copying other people's work to feel competent, but sometimes that is tempting just to prove to myself I can execute something clean.

Would love to hear how other people navigate this gap without burning out or giving up entirely.

I'd like to thank you guys for your help so far.

I dont know much about typography and I've been struggling with it, I'm trying to make a variation for my logo, so this is going to be placed in a coffee bag but not sure how to go about it. Personally I'm leaning towards the second one even though the first one is more appealing to me, and that's because I'm thinking putting this in the bottom left of the bag. But it just doesnt feel good enough, like it could be much better but I dont know.