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Are You Satisfied With Your Designs?
You may have heard the saying that "great designers are never satisfied." The logic is that if you never feel satisfied, then you'll always want to improve.
But if you're never even occasionally satisfied, how will you deliver a design to a client with confidence? If you're incessantly too self-critical, how will you find the motivation to keep going? Or feel the rush of excitement when you finally design the same thing that you envisioned in your mind?
This question does not have a binary answer. Instead it's more like a volume knob on a stereo. The balance you'll find is somewhere between the two extremes: beating yourself up and quietly hiding your design projects on one side, and loudly promoting yourself on social media on the other side.
Perhaps that initial saying makes more sense within the context of time. If it said, "great designers are never satisfied, with their work from a year ago," then that fits better; because at the time you might think your designs are great (and with your skillset at that time they probably are!) but after a year has passed and you've evolved as a designer, you can be a better judge of how satisfied you are with your progression over time.
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