designer thinks hes too good

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    I think you hit it on the head. There's no substitute for experience. If he's not capable yet of experimenting and expanding his horizons (likely due to not knowing the medium all that well), then even with some constructive feedback, it's going to take serious time to get him producing more interesting work. He likely has a good eye, but doesn't have the design vocabulary to push his boundaries and accomplish better work yet. Figure 2-3 years, ie: the period between junior/intermediate and senior designer.

    In the mean time, you either need to be more involved with his projects and push the design for him. Or If that's not how your company is set up (ie: you are mostly working on your own projects instead of managing others), then you probably need a senior-level designer who can capably handle the demands of the job.

    And I think everyone starts out thinking they're hot-shit. You don't realize how much you sucked until you're in it for a while. and probably 10 years from now you'll look back on your work and feel a bit the same way. There's a bit of a combination of hard-headed confidence combined with introspective self-consciousness involved in being a designer. You need to be confident enough to put your work out for rejection, and at the same time never be truly satisfied with the results and always push to improve. It may be expressed differently from generation to generation, but ultimately I think it's a personality type and not something you'll ever get away from.

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