Web design is lame
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- hans_glib0
i kind of understand where fate is coming from. In the early days of teh interwebz (pre standards) there was all manner of interesting stuff happening and being created/tried out. But as the medium has matured, and standards have been drawn up, and metrics used to determine what works and what doesn't, many sites end up looking and working the same way.
So it's fairly soul-destroying producing one site after another.
I used to work at a packaging design outfit and almost exclusively worked on M&S food packaging. After a while it all got very samey and dull and I felt like fate. Doing the same thing month in month out isn't very conducive to creativity. So I moved to a firm that did a lot of brochure work and it was great for a while, but eventually got into a rut there as well. And so moved on again.
The key is to have a wide range of projects to keep you fresh.
But at the same time, don't get into design to have a "legacy". It's far too ephemeral for that.