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Do you struggle with design of your product?

Hey everyone,
I'm looking for people who suck at graphic design 🤔

I'd like to know:

  1. what's your main struggle related to the design of your startup? (visuals, fonts, logo, colors, etc)?
  2. how are you currently solving the problem?

I'm in the middle of pivoting my design startup and would love to understand people's problems better.

Cheers 🙏

on January 13, 2023
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    My Main struggle is to be confident on one single design. Currently I just ask my peers to review and bring it all down to a vote for all the stakeholders.

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      Very helpful, thank you 🙏

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    I suck at making a beautiful design, I know I should
    Probably study the basics of making a design but on my full time job I am a back-end/SRE engineer… so the last thing I want to study is design….

    Currently I just get free designs ready to use on internet.

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      Thank Mateus. Yeah I feel learning is too much to ask, would be easier if it was "done for you" in a simple way.

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    Creating social media and website collateral that matches the brand and stands out – screenshot backgrounds, blog post headers, email templates.

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    I suck at life, and design is part of it. I can confidently say that I also suck at design then.

    Visuals; No visuals. I can't find anything related to my projects.
    Logo; if I try to design it, ends up being too generic. So I go with a wordmark (simply a fancy font)
    Colors; I find an accent color and apply it to a grayscale scheme.

    Curious about what you are up to.

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      Thanks mate. I don't know what i'm up to yet, will depend on the answers i get :p

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    Hi indie hackers!
    I'm Dagobert co-founder, I'd love to know what your struggles with design too. 😊

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    The main issue is the continuous feeling to improve or make changes to designs - which can cause a never ending cycle. To tackle the problem, I tend to stop myself from looking too much at inspiration.

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      thanks, that's very helpful

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    I really want 1:1 tutoring from a great designer in how to think about the design/UX/UI from the start, and I want to go back and forth and learn the process.

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    Hi, UX/UI designer here. If you need help with visual design decisions then I can be of help. I'd be happy to take a look at the current designs or even just give some advice.