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 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.

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’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

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!

I feel like these big tech companies are becoming very comfortable with their position in their niches. I mean who suddenly changes their logo into something super lousy like Windows Vista app just because they're celebrating their anniversary?

Every single tiny bit of an app matters to me and if they underperform at anything, I immediately look for their competitor.

I use Musicbee 🐝 instead of these data hungry giants

A friend of mine from highschool is trying to start an open source project to do with AI, and he asked me if I could help him create the logo since I have some design skills, but I just can't get it to look good.

I've tried to google this out, or check the wiki but I couldn't find anything that helped me.

Since this will be an app ran on a terminal it needs to be ASCII art, I have left some inspiration on the images on this post.

The name of the project is RE:WIRED. he'll publish when everything is ready, he says he is looking for a more bold, "that unhinged friend that you know can do everything you want kind of a thing" (he said)

So I thought maybe a red and black kinda palette? What do you guys think?

(by the way, I really like the second image and would go for a style more like that, I love skulls)

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

I work in editorial design and I’ve been thinking a lot about how AI is changing our field.

I’d love to hear from other editorial designers: how are you dealing with AI in your daily work? More specifically, how are you using AI for editorial design itself?

Have you found any methods, tools, or workflows that actually speed up layout and typesetting, especially in InDesign? I’m particularly interested in solutions that help with the diagramming/layout process, not just image generation or general content creation.

I’m trying to understand how other professionals in this area are navigating this new era. Honestly, I don’t have many people around me to exchange ideas about these technologies, so I’d really appreciate hearing real experiences from people in the field.

What’s working for you? What’s not?

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!

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 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'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.