Comments on: How to Feel Good About Your Design

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:18:13 +0000

Thanks for this article! It’s incredibly helpful – I find it hard to feel good about my work sometimes. You’re correct – a break definitely helps, and if you don’t put in your best effort, it’s unlikely that you or potential clients will feel good your work either.

By: Dominik

Dominik — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:25:25 +0000

Hello. Nice article, so true. I’m gonna give it a try this way. Very nice site too, definitely worth bookmarking for designers and “CSSers”. I don’t even know how i got here, anyway :-)

By: Duncan Heal

Duncan Heal — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 01:43:52 +0000

Some good advice here, nicely done. It seems to me that as designers, we do pressure ourselves to create something amazing when something almost amazing will do ;-) The majority of web users don’t put a site’s design under so much scrutiny – so why do we? I guess because we stare at a site for weeks while developing it while visitors see it for a matter of minutes. Remaining objective is very important.

By: Mario A.

Mario A. — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:04:27 +0000

Heyho!

Thanks for this fine article. I’m a young german media designer who is often unhappy with it’s design. This “tutorial” would help me a lot with myself.

Greetings from the German Motorcity
Mario A.

By: zeq

zeq — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:22:23 +0000

co0l
thanks for attention

By: gerritssen

gerritssen — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:58:38 +0000

I really enjoyed reading your hints and agree with most of them.
But there is just one thing I disagree: the first thing I do when creating a website, is to develop a general layout and design, which makes it easier for me to place the content. But I guess everyone has his own little tricks and preferences.

By: Caleb

Caleb — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:13:35 +0000

I know how you feel. I’m always wanting to change the design of my site as soon as a finish. I don’t know if it is because I enjoy designing and have completed one project and want more or if it’s some kind of obsessive-compulsive thing. Either way it can be nerve-racking.

By: Bojan

Bojan — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:47:50 +0000

@sale: I definitely agree there.

By: sale

sale — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:41:25 +0000

You speak wisely my fellow friend, I just wanna emphasize one thing that just recently made really clear to me: Deadlines can be your friends!

Though it sounds really spooky, it’s absolutely the truth. Although they are mostly the reason for stress and “rapid losing hair” process, without them, we would be designing one thing for ages, always trying to improve it. Sometimes you just have to stop and say it’s done. For time being, that is – web can always be redesigned!

By: ViB

ViB — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:40:54 +0000

I’d ad one more to your list:
Do not accept comments or suggestions from no one in early stages of the work. That could ad some “dirt” into your original idea and, in my experience at least, all those well intended suggestion at the beginning of any design only help to mix things up. No big deal if you have something more or less solid in hands…
Cheers