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Those two websites look directly ripped from Caler Edwards's tutorials. I don't stand for that stuff at all considering you're passing off his work without attribution, essentially claiming them as your own.
Hi there, thank you for your comment. I do not really understand why you are claiming that I would be 'passing off his work'. I have not even used any of his tutorials, neither did I use them as inspiration for the second design. For the first design I indeed got the inspiration from his Dribbble. Would you mind explaining why you think that the second design looks 'ripped'? Also would you suggest giving some free vouch copies in order to build some more portfolio first?
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"a work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a manuscript or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc."
your first design is pretty much exactly the same as his, only thing you did was change the text color and shade of blue on the bubble
you included the exact placement of the logo, exact placement of the description text, exact placement of the bubble, bubble color, double lines coming out from the top left, bottom left, and bottom right of the bubble, small bubble with icon in the top right, and might've even used some of the same fonts
Right, so this is Caler's original work here:
This closely mirrors to what you have as your first work in your portfolio, even down to the placement of the extrusions from the rounded rectangle. As User has mentioned, your work is merely a replication of Caler's with minor changes. Now, if you drew a mustache on the Mona Lisa, does that make it a new and unique piece? Let alone does it mean you did it all by yourself and so you can call it your own work? At the very least say "THIS WAS DESIGNED BY ___" or "THIS DESIGNED IS HEAVILY INSPIRED FROM ___" to at least give some sort of attribution to the original creator. Right now you are essentially "plagiarizing" (though really your just copying designs) someone's work.
In regards to your second work, it's not all too similar but it does look inspired from one of Caler's early works here:
https://gyazo.com/b743ea52f24384c1d93c7d74a064347a
Again it's not merely as blatant and frankly I'm not as mad with it as the first work (This is how you convert an inspiration off of someone else's design into your own).
The best advice you will ever get from me is this: Never work for free. That being said, of course you should do vouch copies/freebies to build a portfolio but I suggest you impose limits on those vouch copies. For example, limit the client to X amount of sections, tell them they can't have any API calls, etc. Another important aspect is to deliver what your thread claims in the most minimal way possible, again you do not want to work for free. Essentially, offer vouch copies that are limited in terms of features and complete in such a way that you take the least amount of time on them while still delivering a good enough product for other users to vouch for your services.
BIGGEST ADVICE FOR VOUCH COPIES: Do not get a web developer to give you a vouch copy (for example: Me). This may sound extremely stupid but web developers will nitpick everything about your services, I recommend getting vouches from clients who are inexperienced with design and development. This is for vouch copies only, get your vouches first then get reviewed by your peers.
Right, so this is Caler's original work here:
This closely mirrors to what you have as your first work in your portfolio, even down to the placement of the extrusions from the rounded rectangle. As User has mentioned, your work is merely a replication of Caler's with minor changes. Now, if you drew a mustache on the Mona Lisa, does that make it a new and unique piece? Let alone does it mean you did it all by yourself and so you can call it your own work? At the very least say "THIS WAS DESIGNED BY ___" or "THIS DESIGNED IS HEAVILY INSPIRED FROM ___" to at least give some sort of attribution to the original creator. Right now you are essentially "plagiarizing" (though really your just copying designs) someone's work.
In regards to your second work, it's not all too similar but it does look inspired from one of Caler's early works here:
https://gyazo.com/b743ea52f24384c1d93c7d74a064347a
Again it's not merely as blatant and frankly I'm not as mad with it as the first work (This is how you convert an inspiration off of someone else's design into your own).
The best advice you will ever get from me is this: Never work for free. That being said, of course you should do vouch copies/freebies to build a portfolio but I suggest you impose limits on those vouch copies. For example, limit the client to X amount of sections, tell them they can't have any API calls, etc. Another important aspect is to deliver what your thread claims in the most minimal way possible, again you do not want to work for free. Essentially, offer vouch copies that are limited in terms of features and complete in such a way that you take the least amount of time on them while still delivering a good enough product for other users to vouch for your services.
BIGGEST ADVICE FOR VOUCH COPIES: Do not get a web developer to give you a vouch copy (for example: Me). This may sound extremely stupid but web developers will nitpick everything about your services, I recommend getting vouches from clients who are inexperienced with design and development. This is for vouch copies only, get your vouches first then get reviewed by your peers.
I would like to thank both of you for your critique. I must indeed admit that using too much of someone else's design is a bad habit of mine. Although this conversation really affects the presentation of the thread, I still appreciate it. I really do not understand why you would say that the second one is inspired by Caler, since I completely created that without any inspiration from other's creations. Both of your initial reactions were a bit unecessarily negative in my opinion, but I can really use this critique in a positive way. You must take into account that many people use other designs as inspiration, even many big companies do it. That does NOT mean that it is the right thing to do, and the amount of similarities between his design and mine are too much. Thank you for the helpful advice too Shaun .
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