Are You Still Making These Mistakes⚠️?

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Today I’ll be revealing mistakes I did as a newbie designer.

So that you don’t commit these mistakes ever.

[If you don’t have enough time you can scroll down for the summary👇🏻]

⚠️Mistake 1: Designing too much at first.

I am also a passionate designer like you and I love designing stuffs.

And I have not been into any design school🏫 and don’t own fancy design degree📔.

So during the starting of every project I used to design every single feature in an app/website without implementing the basic feature.

It might look like a great thing but It’s not.

Because a good design comes after a series of iterations.

And figuring out how every feature should interact and how every edge case should look like is really hard.

So start by making a simple version of the next feature you want to build.

⚠️Mistake 2: Not using a design system

I know you must be thinking what is the use of design as a beginner or at the starting of a project.

In my early days I used to design without a design system because making a design system doesn’t excites my and I end up making lot of mistakes and confusion.

Making and using a design system will make your design 10x faster and accurate.

And you don’t have to define all the stuff ahead of time. Just make sure you’re approaching design with a system-focused mindset.

⚠️Mistake 3: Focusing more on layout rather than the feature

In the starting of every project I used to invest a lot of time in deciding “Should it have a top nav, or sidebar?” etc etc. which lead to frustration.

But later I realized an app or a website is actually a collection of features so let’s focus on designing for the feature first and the layout will be more or less depends on the feature and the functionality.

To summarize the whole newsletter:

1. Design is an iterative process so don’t design too must at the beginning.

2. Develop your Design-system approach mindset.

3. Focus on designing the feature rather than the shell/layout.

I would love to know about your design mistakes so please reply to this mail

Waiting for your response.💌

Regards

Pratyux☺️

(www.pratyushkumar.in)