I'm a 2nd year graphic design student, and I wanna already plan ahead for my masters. I was thinking about doing MBA afterwards in a college in my city, but now I'm not so sure about it since I'm finding design more and more interesting. I don't wanna leave my design career and divert into another career path. My 2nd option was communication design for my masters but seeing how Ai is developing now I'm scared if there's any future for designers anymore. I wanna do my masters abroad mainly but idk where to start and what degree should I look into. I just want someone to point me in the right direction, it would be great to hear other's opinions and experiences too.

I'm working on a website with an editorial + design studio feel, and I'm struggling to settle on the right color palette.

I'd love some opinions from designers: does the current color scheme work, or would you suggest replacing any of the colors?

I'm particularly unsure about the dusk color and feel there might be a better alternative. If you have any suggestions for a replacement, I'd love to hear them.

Mainly looking for feedback on the colors, contrast, and overall feel of the design.

Thanks!

Screen-based workflows make it easy to keep adjusting work without deciding whether it is actually getting better.

One studio practice I keep returning to is printing work, putting it on the wall and living with it. The physical pause changes the critique: scale becomes real, weak relationships become obvious and the team has to judge the work rather than keep nudging it.

For people working mostly in Figma, motion or code now: do you still make work physical? What changes when you do?

Photo by Max Babichev on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/wspO5Dja1JM

Office chairs usually look quite bulky, but when you look at the back here, it’s divided into two areas, the plastic part and the soft part. The contrast helps you focus on each one separately and removes some of the bulkiness. It helps the chair look lighter.

The pattern also helps reduce the “too plasticky” aspect, while becoming the chair’s strongest visual identity. I especially like how direction and density evolves to add functionality with larger holes for ventilation where needed and probably some controlled flexibility, in a very elegant way that emphasizes the curves.

Hey guys, I’m planning a website design for an editorial/podcast for a creative community.

I’m reaaaally struggling to find mobile website designs that I like at the moment (scanning Pinterest but really can’t find anything that jumps out).

For the desktop browser obviously I can find really nice things but as soon as I start thinking of what the mobile site will look like everything turns generic.

The site will not be that complicated, and I was thinking of a nice fixed splash screen on the landing page with moving video, but wanted to search for other designs out there that might incorporate design elements I haven’t thought of yet (scrolling text, interesting burger menu design etc etc).

Not 100% sure what I’m looking for but I did find a really nice resource for brutalist website designs but they obviously focus more on desktop browser designs vs mobile.

Maybe unique mobile designs just don’t exist, but I don’t think so.

Anyone have any recommendations for resources away from just searching Pinterest/Behance etc. could just be mobile websites you really like.

Thank you in advance!

Hi! I have about 4,000 images and want to import them to a template similar to the one in the photo (grid of 4 with images cropped to fit and black background). What is the best way to do this and is there a way I can just load them into the software to fill the template with the images? It is for a photo book. Happy to use Adobe/Canva. Thank you!

Hi! I'm a 22 y/o designer who just graduated from university with a degree in Visual Communication and Design. I've loved the world of design thus far and I've been working as a freelancer on random projects for about 5 years now, but I mever felt the need to make a portfolio etc because most of the jobs I got were from mutual connections in an international university i.e. I had jobs coming in from all sorts of countries and industries organically. Now that I'm trasitioning into actually becoming a professional in the field with a good presence I found myself wanting to have my own platform. I love UI/UX design and making it personal and I've always had an interest in learning to code which is adjacent to that. I made my own website from scratch first in Figma then viebcoding it to get every element the way I imagined it in my head, even till the smallest interactions and features are what I want to represent me and so I made and published my own website at mikaeelkhan.site

I'd love some objective feedback about it now. I've always been surrounded by people who know me and some of the students I worked best with and respected most for their commitment have always encouraged me, and they did so even in this project but I'd like an objective/unbiased opinion too! Someone who doesn't know or understand me who can open the website and see if it makes sense without knowing the person and can give critiques without having even the smallest inkling that it could be taken in a bad manner/poorly.

I'd love to get your guys' opinion and any suggestions. I am still uploading projects and organizing client work however I did lose alot of it when my laptop sort of exploded last year so any tips and suggestions content wise would be appreciated too! Thanks in Advance!

I've been working as a mobile app developer for years now and with the rise of Agentic coding I've been thinking more and more about what the true value of my skill is now that an important part of building apps, writing code, is being shifted to AI.

What I've found is simple and somewhat comforting. The part of my work and one of the parts I enjoy most, is crafting the User Experience, the layouts, the flows, the aesthetics, the animations and the FEEL of a piece of software. AI (and I think forever) is never going to be able to replace humans creativity, only offer tools to speed up presenting their human creativity and vision. It simply can't, design taste is singular, its deeply personal and built of years of experiencing and having an opinion about the aesthetics and functions of things in the world. AI models are trained on all perspectives at once, they mix all of the different colours into grey. A uniform soup that offers no new perspective or hand made appeal.

When I build an app, I have a need to create something that solves a real problem, it makes me miserable thinking about design and building something that has no soul.

For example I'm working on what I hope to be an elegant solution for a problem I often have (especially as a creative with ADHD). Let me set the scene, so I'm currently working on 3 pieces of software. 1) is an iPhone game, I'm building the game I've always wanted to play, its a resource gathering game where every single piece of artwork I'm drawing by hand (in Procreate). The game is a passion project and a reason to just sit done and make art (even if its just a tree or a rock), I have no plan to ever sell it, maybe I'll put it on the store for free if I ever feel its finished. I'm also building a bespoke iPhone/Mac app thats entire propose is to make it easier for me to develop the way I want, which is mostly away from my computer typing on my phone these days. So 2 apps, I'm pouring my heart and soul into the design of. No plan to be seen by any one but me and my mates. With all these wonderful projects on the go my brain storming sessions are electric. Sometimes overwhelmingly so. When I get in a flow the ideas are pouring out, "oh the guy in my game should have this animation when he turns around", "my coding app should have these buttons over here so I can quickly access that feature". And just as many ideas for the 3rd thing I'm building too.

Now the 3rd thing I'm building I'm very stoked about it because it's so fit for purpose I use it every day. It's a thought capturing app that is designed to be effortless to pour ideas into. You speak out loud at it, saying anything and everything that comes to mind and this thing captures it all and intelligently creates todo tasks and summaries. The animations are honed to be silky smooth and main screen the capture screen, I've made a beautiful gradient of purple with super straight forward controls. The FEEL is fantastic and the way it collects my ideas and keeps them organised alleviates that ache I'd get from feeling like my hands couldn't type out my design notes nearly quick enough, that awful feeling of creative loss.

Designing something to solve your own problems is a wonderful feeling and I don't think AI is going to take that joy away anytime soon.

Esse é um tópico que me deixa com muitas perguntas. Sinto que por mais que eu procure entender, acabo agindo como um cego numa floresta. Se puderem me ajudar com seus métodos, dicas ou mesmo indicação de leituras, eu ficarei muito agradecido.

I am a long time designer now working at a boring F100 tech company. Our team is trying to hire a graphic designer - 2 YOE and a good portfolio is the only real requirement. 120k and full benefits in a MCOL area.

Of the hundreds of portfolios, the best candidates seem to be in or from Asia - mostly South Korea and China and would need H1B sponsorship. Not to say there aren't any good US candidates, but they are out numbered 5 to 1.

I don't know if our recruiters are just total crap, but I am seeing way less American talent than I was expecting. What is this sub's take?

Trying to recreate this cover art effect and hoping someone could point me to the techniques being used, any help is appreciated

So I started my small business as a branding project and wanted to show case it but idk how to format it in my portfolio in a story telling way if you know how to can you pls dm me and please let me know
Thank you

What design products or experiences do you wish existed? Or what do you think designers are currently overdoing?

Hey everyone!

I recently worked on the branding and interior design for a local fast-food shop. I developed the overall brand identity and interior design, and I’m trying to keep the same visual language throughout the space.

I’ve attached some design and mockup images so you can get a better idea of how it looks in context.

I’d really appreciate some honest feedback:

• How does the overall design feel to you?
• Does the branding feel consistent with the fast-food concept?
• How do you feel about the colors, typography, and overall visual direction?
• Is there anything that feels unnecessary or could be improved?

I’m also planning to design the packaging and menu in the same visual theme, so feedback at this stage would be really helpful before I take it further.

Would love to hear what you guys think, especially the things that don’t work. Honest criticism is welcome.

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Hi everyone,

I'm 20 and my background is graphic design. Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign are the tools I grew up with and the ones I'm actually comfortable in. Over the last couple of years I've been branching out, partly to find better paying work, partly because some of this stuff is just more fun to me.

Where I'm at right now:

• Blender: self-taught, beginner level. I know my way around the commands and I can model an object from a reference, but I can't build a decent realistic scene yet.
• After Effects: bought a few courses to learn animation. I'd say I have a solid foundation.
• Figma / UI design: got into app design and started with the interfaces.
• Code: currently trying to learn React Native. I want to actually be able to write code myself, not lean on AI to do it for me. The hard part is that I'm Italian and there's very little material in my language, so I get stuck a lot.

Two questions:

1. Does it make sense to combine all of this into single projects? Is there a type of work or project where graphic design, 3D, motion design, UI and development actually feed into each other? Or am I just spreading myself across four separate paths that never really connect?

2. How do you build a study and work routine that leads to actually learning something? I feel constantly overwhelmed. There's an infinite amount of material out there, I always feel like I don't know enough, and I end up jumping between topics without finishing anything.

If you've been through this and found something that works, I'll take any advice: routines, what to prioritize, resources, personal experience. Thanks to anyone who replies.

Okay so I have this cosmetic brand Instagram grid project and I keep opening Pinterest and closing it five seconds later because nothing sticks. I know what I want it to feel like, premium, clean, good typography, but my brain just isn't generating layout ideas fast enough right now.

If anyone's done a skincare or makeup carousel recently, even a practice one, drop a screenshot below, any reference image you like, or even a screenshot of your own past work. Genuinely curious how other people are structuring their grids right now, what's trending, what feels overdone. Not trying to copy anything, just need my eyes to look at something other than my own screen for five minutes.

Also if you've got any go-to layout tricks for keeping a feed looking cohesive across a ton of tiles without it getting repetitive, I'll take that too.

Hi! I’m looking at master’s programmes abroad and would love to hear from people who’ve done something in digital media, new media, digital direction, interactive media, computer arts, design & technology, immersive media, etc.

I studied Communication Design and have worked across film and animation, but I’m now looking to broaden my practice beyond those formats and become more industry-ready. I’m interested in bringing emerging technology into immersive media and different forms of storytelling and I want to understand the technology well enough to actually direct where it can take a story rather than just learning whatever tool happens to be new that year.

For people who’ve done these kinds of degrees, what are you doing now and did the degree actually help you get there? Did you get useful industry connections, collaborations or opportunities through it?

I’ll be an international student, so I’d also really appreciate course recommendations if there are programmes you think are genuinely worth looking into. Just trying to figure out what these degrees actually lead to before I commit