Has QBN helped you to become a better designer?
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- liamh
Just throwing it out there...
- Peter0
If anything QBN fueled my hatred for people and obliterated my general faith in mankind. But it also provided a few links to some nice sites.
- lukus_W0
It's made me realise that if I choose to be a bad person, I'm in good company.
- jetSkii0
It actually made me worse, thanks alot assholes.
- autoflavour0
QBN is a design site?
- between all the timeline and softcore porn, i thought it was a 4chan spin offautoflavour
- just kidding qbn, you know i love yaautoflavour
- drgz0
I'm not even a designer
- What are you?ukit
- This is why newstoday was much better.CygnusZero4
- boy toyutopian
- Used to code PHPdrgz
- plash_two0
not really. although i do see the need to be a nicer person and help out when i can.
- utopian0
directly no, indirectly yes
- vaxorcist0
It has made me a better negotiator with some clients... and I've seen some links to good design I would not have otherwise bothered with....
- ukit0
There are other sites that are more focused on design like B3hance. QBN is more for idle chit chat...but from designers so you get all the excitement and intrigue that you would expect based on that.
- ExterminatingAngel0
I was nothing before qbn
- and now i am...ExterminatingAngel
- nothingExterminatingAngel
- You're a nickname too long.Lillebo
- I know, I hate thatExterminatingAngel
- Maybe if you stopped exterminatingPeter
- breadlegz0
anyone remember pixelsurgeon?
- Boz0
as e-pill said.. QBN not really.. Newstoday though helped me meet some people in real life that helped my career tremendously especially since I moved from Europe at that point and had nothing. So thanks to Newstoday I met people that in more ways then one changed my life and made me where I am today (if not directly then indirectly).
- georgesIII0
It helps me keep my written english to a scholastic level.
- pinkfloyd0
I must admit QBN has made me a bit darker.
- exador10
i remember years and years ago when k10k was king, i would look at the 'name' designers posting there and think...man...i wish i was a part of that.....I even had a chance a few times to talk with Jeffery Zeldman, and told him as much...and he just responded along the lines of 'hey man...everyone's welcome to the conversation'...but not there, and not then...it was a bit of a closed circuit with that crowd...which is fine...it was the k10k guys site...and they just let their friends talk...no problem....lol....UNTIL IT WENT DOWN! remember that folks?...so..suddenly a lot of us went looking for other places to score good links from etc....i used to wander over to holodeck73 all the time, i really liked the design of it, when suddenly i saw....Newstoday in it's place.....and was properly blown away...i think i found the place right around the time it started making people sign up to post...i believe iwas one of the first people to register even....pretty remarkable.....
on my first day i got in an argument with transfatty...and met some amazing and awesome people along the way....Biofreak, Kona, Dobolina, Piperboy and the notorious VENA....(that was his nickname on teh site right?..he was a bit of a moderator if i recall)
anyhow, suddenly everything i had been complaining about to Zeldman suddenly turned upside down....here i WAS a part of the conversation..here i was meeting up with 'like minds' from across the world.....and we did indeed help each other become better designers..the crits were as nasty and helpful then as they are now lol....and you better believe we also helped each other...
who here can remember the long distance ordering of pizza for that NTer that was hungry and broke....or the time we thought someone was suicidal and we all spent the night trying to track them down...yes...a lot of time has been wasted here arguing about politics and religion and a lot of other garbage...but i like to think along the way we've helped each other a lot...showing folks amazing and inspiring portfolios, seeing each others work, sending fonts to each other when we were in need, and basically being there for each other over the years....after all, this was pretty much the first place i told folks about the birth of both of my kids..... what can i say....you guys have all been worth spending a decade with.....
- CanHazQBN0
I've learned more about design on NT/QBN than I ever did at school, mainly because anonymous people are more willing to give honest feedback. Whereas people in person will just be nice and say something "looks good".
- I try to remind my boss that when someone (blind clients) have blown wind up his arse again.Amicus
- detritus0
Such as my skills are, I'd answer in the affirmative.
I've seen a lot of great, inspiring work from people here and stuff from out there brought back and shared. Conversely I've seen lots of bad work and the many crits threads have helped frame my own processes and reviewing.
I guess the most inspiring thing is seeing the improvement and development in others - I won't name names, but I've witnessed some people start off with very little capability and come up with great pieces of work over the years, blossoming into full portfolios.
In the old, caged-off days of H73 etc, I found links to really great works almost deflating . Not having access to the person behind the work elevated it beyond its worth.
QBN showed me that with a little conviction, a little self belief and a lot of hard work and polishing - anything's possible.
*tears up a little
I love you, QBN.
*snif
- dbloc0
QBN has made me less productive.
- hektor9110
I luv the raw feedback, I luv the crazy shit some of you guys post on here, its been a great inspiration source personally, but most importantly it led me to meet some great people such as sea_sea.
QBN rules!