designer depression?
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of course ff. But that's the part of our lives as creatives. There's no best, there will always be someone better then you. But look at it this way, it really doesn't matter how technical you are. The whole depression arises when you see someone's work technically better executed then yours, it's not the design aspect of it. So keep this in mind, the world is extremely big, the market craves for good ideas, not technical perfection. For some businesses, it's totally inappropriate to go way to deep into some animation mambo jumbo, super duper interfaces and stuff like that. You will get rid of depression if you find your target audience. Clients that praise your work and have need for your own style. Then you won't really care and it won't make you depressed when you see Nike's brand new site by multimillion dollar RGA for example. It will inspire you in a sense to try to expand your style, but you won't get depressed because you have your target audience who looks at you as their perfect creative partner.
The cure for everything is planning and organization, setting your goals, client group, your style and project organization. If you have these, you won't even think about others' projects. Don't forget, design is great, but you have to look at it as business which has a primary goal to make money.
Keep it real, bro.
Boz