designer thinks hes too good
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- locustsloth0
trooperbil's lack of response tells me that he's stuck Mr. Modest with a shiv in the company bathroom and is now on the lamb.
SHINE ON YOU CRAZY PSYCHO! Don't forget to lurk in the drop shadows and blend into the textured background
- whatthefunk0
Don't make the mistakes of confusing one's design sense with one's character. Sounds like this person may be a bit of a "big talker" but his design work doesn't support that. This is a flaw of immature designers who want to make it big. I've worked with/directed a bunch of "young hot shots" who are so busy talking the talking and spending less time walking the walk that their work suffers.
Perhaps you should have a chat with him about how he carries himself b/c it sounds like that is bothering you a bit more than the typical design sense of a young buck. Develop an analogy about "less being more" both as a designer and as an employee, can't have young bucks walking around fist bumping and whoop, whooping when their design is shite. It's your job, if you are his supervisor, to pull him aside as tell him that his demeanor is making him look/sound like a fool and focus on one project for a proper critique.
Or maybe you're just envious b/c a young buck has all this cheesy energy for design work and is a talker, I could see that too...
- trooperbill0
@whatthefunk... yes ill try that! thanks
- ********0
'Look, cunt. Your work is mediocre at best stop with your crispy fucking pixel perfect shite and get back to work before I rape you'
- HAYZ1LLLA0
I think I'm the shit too. But I'm not.
- trooperbill0
its not that hes big headed... just that the output isnt great and theres all this terminology used to mask it
BTW the crit you did of our website went down well... seems he can take feedback just not from his peers or management.
he still wont put real work as thumbs on the website :/
- Tell if he doesn't do it not to bother coming in on Monday. Simple.qTime
- he's not the bossmonospaced
- He should tell like a bwoss.qTime
- *You should tell him like a bwoss.
FAILqTime
- cannonball19780
1) Laugh at him
2) Challenge him
3) When he fails, put this on his desk
- cannonball19780
Also, find pixels that are out of whack.
"Not pixel perfect." *shaking head*
- brains0
@trooperbill
It's frustrating how often this runs rampant in the digital / interface community (thanks Dribbble!). I've had to deal with it in many different capacities. In my experience, it's incredibly hard to deal with — I think whatthefunk has it pretty well outlined, although I've found in a lot of ways types like this do not respond well to management in any way, as they always "know better". Any designer completely comfortable and not still presenting a learning, and feedback accepting attitude towards his / her skills, is not a designer I want to work with, or manage.
- <<< And that is a fact! Nice take @brainsbrandon_phillip
- whatthefunk0
Trying not to show my age here as an old fuddy duddy but I'm noticing these 20-24 year olds are coming in with these attitudes, tendency to speak without a filter, will make dumb comments to senior leadership, and overall carry themselves as though they've been conditioned to speak like they do with the veil of anonymity when they're online.
A bunch of my colleagues and friends have been noticing this. When I first started out I (and we) were all about grinding out the putting in dues stuff, doing anything we could to gain experience with great projects, constantly concerned that our work wasn't good enough and asked for repeated critique anywhere we could find it.
Nowadays it seems these young ones are all about being hipster, ultra cool dbags and talk like they're 14 trying to pick up a chick online. The amount of "Duuuuuuuuuuuuuudes, and Yooooooos, and Ughhhhhh, I don't know" responses I hear from these rookies makes me want to grab my monitor and frisbee it into their little domes.
Anyone else noticing this, I didn't notice this 10+ years ago and I certainly wasn't like this. An effen epidemic if you ask me.
- This is the incoming workforce's M.O. - I plan on letting them fall on their own swords - fucking idiots.brandon_phillip
- I'm noticing the younger designers are starting off their profiles with "I'm a 22 designer..." As if they were proud of they were you.qTime
- sounds a lot like qbnutopian
- I hate to say I've noticed this massively. Look to the staff of Sugar Ape and see the resemblance!ShaneHolley
- ETM0
Looking at your site, and if the designer in question did design it... then yes, there is a serious lack of that "last 10%" or final polish.
Typography, output of some of the graphics (jaggies/composition) and lack of contrast between text and backgrounds.- Everything about 'Ostrich Sans' used for the nav bugs me.ETM
- not crispy enough?monospaced
- Yep. Definitely some mushy bits here and there.ETM
- BK0
Tell him he looks like a bitch.
- ********0
tell him that you're not trying to rob him of his good work, and that you and your company actually respects him as a designer... do not tell him that you went on QBN to bad mouth him on threads. if you do, then he will find out that you're just trying to rob him of good design work that you will not have to pay royalties on.
- 74LEO0
Are his initials B.B. ?
- autoflavour0
make sexually suggestive comments towards him..
- i_monk0
PIITB
- Frosty_spl0
My friend was the same way. He thought he was the shit, and still can't find a job. I tried to help him get into my agency, but I was kinda embarassed for him. He knows his shit when it comes to design, but can't produce.
- ********0
trooperbill, maybe you're fustrated.
- dont want to be mean, but maybe ;/********
- you just posted that you're drunk ;)monospaced
- hahahawhatthefunk
- dont want to be mean, but maybe ;/
