Don't listen to them
Grace Holm
Designer's Career Coach | I help designers get unstuck in their careers and create more freedom, income and impact in their jobs | 1:1 Coaching | Small Group Cohorts
Dear Designer,
Don’t let anyone (including yourself) make you feel otherwise:
Designers do meaningful work. I struggled with this a lot when I was designing--Feeling like being a designer wasn’t making an impact in the world. After all, the outcome isn’t tangible for us when we’re working for a company, right? We don’t directly get to see and experience the way our designs may light someone up. That’s why I wanted to let you know this.
You are important. Therefore what you do is meaningful.
Designers make things beautiful. Designers make beautiful things.
This is not shallow. It can be, but it doesn’t have to be.
You enhance the beautiful things of this world, and spark inspiration in others.
You help people to see themselves with more confidence, or others with more appreciation.
You remind others that there is beauty in this world even when sometimes the world looks ugly.
Friend, as a designer you bring out the best. It doesn’t have to stop with your designs either. You get to do it within the workplace too and enhance the culture, community, and the people around you.
So lean into your gift knowing that both you and your work has purpose.
-Grace
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