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The most consistently unhappy crowd I know. Haven’t met one in the 22 years that I’ve been in or around this stuff who wasn’t sort of perma-unhappy.
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Everyone subconsciously thinks they're a designer by virtue of having used designed products, and thus they undervalue all the invisible and discarded parts of design, which is where all the actual work is.
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Mismatched in perceived value and status + power. “All the work and none of the glory” Engineers at least have status in form of outsized pay and tech valorization
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Designers often suffer from a big gap between their desired reality (*Sir Jony Ive handling a metal cube, in deep thought*) vs actual day-to-day ("This pixel, it should be pinker, no? Anyway, re: your OKRs...")
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