Earlier this day I made an e-store mockup and design edits on my other mockups.
Truth be told I was on a creative high which left me so drained at the end of the day.
My work forte concentrated on converting PSD files to HTML and CSS for many years and when I was asked to continuously create design templates, I felt I was a newbie to design. Yet, things came out good I just have to be proud of myself even if my actual designs are not initially approved.
As a commercial web designer, it will be of utmost importance you know how to take requests or criticisms. For every mockup design you will expect a team member of non-design position to request for edits regardless of how perfect you think your design is. Put into consideration they are seeing your design in a non-creative perspective, which will point communication inputs you may not have been aware of but are essential to the success of a website.
As they say, two (or more) eyes are better than one.
As a full-time commercial designer you will need to be always open to your website visitor’s perspective. What kind of web visitor’s are we expecting, what messages should be delivered to them, what pictures will appropriately portray the message to convert the user’s into buyers etc.
There are just too many factors to think of.
Being a commercial artist for so long, my mindset has focused in this method so much I realized earlier I have not done a personal project for so long.
I miss the process of creating something for myself, for something I love and enjoy. This could be the reason why every time I attempt to make a mockup for a my blog, I easily get frustrated and dump the project. I deem it is me trying to get a message out without knowing what the message is. It is because I want to reach many web visitors just because I want to. That is not a good direction to take.
Note to myself, turn off the commercial designer once work shift ends. It is time to go back to projects I USED to do when I wasn’t a web designer. I used to make fanlistings, constantly updated my blog template no matter how ugly they looked, read blogs of friends and joined a lot of forums.
That part of me had been long gone. It is time to bring those back and regain the old artistic, eclectic me.
Let’s bring it on!
