9 Annoying Things Every Designer Does

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1. Buys a product because the packaging is nice.

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2. Critiques the menu design of a restaurant every single time they dine.

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This usually happens before we order or as soon as the waitress hands us the menu. From the logo, layout, fonts used, color scheme, packaging, to quality of photos – we’ll spend 5 or more minutes just ranting about every single detail that we think doesn’t work and how they should have done it. Want to date a designer? Better take them to a place where the menu isn’t crap. Or just get used to us, you’ll learn a thing or two about design from our menu critiques. ;)

3. Downloads every beautiful font they see.

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4. Listens to music you’ve never heard of.

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There’s this time when my friends and I were on a trip. The designers, myself included, decided to plug in one of our iPods, played around 3 songs while singing at the top of our lungs. The rest of the group had no idea what songs were playing, saying “You really have weird taste in music.” Our choice in music is actually a great conversation starter!

5. They make your Instagram photos look like trash.

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6. Critiques every advertisement they see.

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We not only critique restaurant menus, we also do the same thing with billboards, online ads, and posters. If we see these things in an ad, we probably won’t buy the product: bad layout, crappy images, much bigger logos, mismatched colors, having more than 3 typefaces in a single design, and the Comic Sans font.

BREAKING NEWS: Speaking of Comic Sans, have you heard about the new Comic Sans Neue? Do you like the makeover of the most bullied font?

7. Will close your website if it’s old school.

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8. Gets mad if they ask you for a high-res photo and you paste it in Word.

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If you want to piss off a designer, send a photo pasted in Word. Seriously though, why do people still do this? If you want us to give you an output in high-res and good quality, just send it as a file. Pasting it in Word is not the same.

9. Prefers beautifully designed front book covers.

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