Not sure I agree
Fascinating, sometimes radical views that I’m undecided between accepting and opposing.
Not sure I agree
if it's a well-thought out, well targeted, well positioned campaign then it's not really a hindrance to anybody. If I'm a DIY enthusiast genuinely needing to buy some new plyers, and I come across an advert for some new fancy plyers, that's a good thing.
Do marketers make the internet a worse place? Specifically digital and social media marketers
How does one start a new business or sell a product in a world without advertising?
How do you scale something fast enough through just word of mouth to get out of the red?
If I open a new bakery, is it predatory to send a pamphlet to the nearby houses? Should I just sit quietly and hope that enough people notice?
How do you scale something fast enough through just word of mouth to get out of the red?
If I open a new bakery, is it predatory to send a pamphlet to the nearby houses? Should I just sit quietly and hope that enough people notice?
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Ah, the age old question!
Educate your fucking client .
I see all too often designers, developers, animators and creatives say one of the following statements -
I see all too often designers, developers, animators and creatives say one of the following statements -
- Omg that client is an idiot
- Oh they just don’t get digital
- It’s too hard for them to understand
- They just requested XYZ, hahahaha
- They just asked all the pages of the website to be turned into PDFs (probably not this one,
Educate your fucking client? Educate your fucking client!
No one’s coming to save you: A designer’s unfiltered take on surviving a brutal market
Mindaugas Petrutisopen.substack.com
This post makes the argument that the market has changed, hiring has changed, and if you want to stay competitive you need to do three times (or more) as much work as you were doing so far. Why? To make your design resume and portfolio hyper-relevant, to A/B test versions of those, to practice for interviews by listening to recordings of previous interviews and mentoring answers word for word.
This is crazy. This is less of a lesson for individual candidates to learn and more of a reflection of how unprepared busynesses and hiring departments are with the current candidate pool. How the crazy standards they set and the amount time expected people put in for free. Insane expectations if you ask me.
As someone who’s been in the job market for over a year, I have so much more to write about this imbalance and why it can’t be all put in the hands of candidates to work this out. And it infuriates me that there’s people that just because they made it, because they were those 1/10000 who got the gig, they feel like they’re solved the riddle and get to tell everyone that they riddle is easy if you know what to do. Yet never at any time question if the riddle should exist at all.
There is also no powder, juice cleanse, ginger shot, or lifestyle gummy that will move the dial towards anything other than the growing mountain of plastic in the ocean. If it takes absolutely no work to consume, it will not save your life. Read that a few more times.
Why is Wellness So Fucking Annoying?
As someone who’s currently a part-timer in a supplement store, this hits fucking hard. I know it to be true. But I also know, from colleagues’ stories, that customers do come back happier. Sometimes their ailments have improved partly thanks to what they bought from us. So I don’t know where to stand.
If taking that multivitamin and before-bed gummies feels like it’s helping, it makes you “feel” stronger, or it “feels” like you’re having better sleep. Then who am I to tell you to stop, to reveal that maybe, only maybe, it’s something other than what you’re taking that’s helping. But then again, money rules the game, and people deserve transparency… It’s a hard one to answer.
I’m over writers and entertainers whose entire profit margin is driven by pointing out problematic stuff.
Everything is problematic. I don’t need another hot take to educate me about this.
– Dr Amber Hull
Design education encourages new designers to use design as a tool for social change and sells them on the idea that fancy design methodologies can solve all kinds of problems. It is exhilarating, but everything always stays the same, because the reality is that the system keeps incentivizing companies chasing infinite growth on the back of a planet... See more
Does everything really stay the same though?
Design education encourages new designers to use design as a tool for social change and sells them on the idea that fancy design methodologies can solve all kinds of problems. It is exhilarating, but everything always stays the same, because the reality is that the system keeps incentivizing companies chasing infinite growth on the back of a planet... See more
Does everything really stay the same though?
Isn’t it all real life? Why devalue the time, those 40 or more hours we spent working?