I have been a Visual Designer/UX Designer/Illustrator for the last few years, living in Paris, London, and San Francisco. Where do you hope your career takes you in the next 5-10 years? A good digital alternative would be Todoist. Stickies and written lists on a wall or on my old Mac display are my dirty secrets.
For product design, and especially if you work remotely, try Figma. My current go-to tools for illustration are not numerous, I go from Adobe Illustrator to Procreate and back.
View on Dribbble Favorite design tools or resources? Be prepared for critics-some will be hard to take but in the end, remember they will help improve your design and make you a better designer.
Put meaning into your work: Think about the real people that will use your designs (this goes for illustration too). Have side projects that nurture your creativity and love for design. Cultivate your curiosity: Be interested in something besides design. I tend to believe that being able to adapt and to reinvent your style will make you always needed somewhere. Find your style but be flexible with it: I see lots of creatives cultivating a unique style. If you like it enough, you’ll find design solutions for the hardest problems and it will be highly rewarding! Make sure design/creating is your passion: You will have to do your job every day, and it won’t always be fun. I’m not sure whether this advice is for everybody, but I do try to keep these things in mind as I go through my own design career: Advice for new product designers starting out in their careers The next day I could be heads down on a series of illustrations or designing a visual identity for a Google product. One morning I’ll be an artistic director on a photoshoot, the afternoon I’ll join a sprint and design some flows. Due to this kind of unique position at Google, my role changes from project to project. My current focus is on Google Lens a technology that uses your smartphone camera to detect objects, offer actions and information about them such as shopping, translate, copy/paste text, etc. One morning I'll be an artistic director on a photoshoot, the afternoon I’ll join a sprint and design some flows.
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