This has been a heavy journey, though I have learned a lot of skills throughout designing for the past 3 years. I started off with very bad and horrible quality designs in photoshop, which I do not recommend, then I noticed there had been more potential with Illustrator which I use till this day. It's easy to design anything as long as it's in the latest trend types (https://dribbble.com).
Although designing was alright at times, it was not enjoyable to do in my free time. Even if I get high paying commissions, It's just not fun.. I have been in 1 or 2 service teams, they were all a mess and all closing down. It's pointless as they attract uneasy customers that really want you to go bone cheap. By far be individual and do not join any type of team while designing. When I started there was hardly anyone really competing as another, so commissions were random and were not dependent. But now seeing all the people want to open photoshop and spam their advertisements over and over is mostly unmotivating.
I must add a tip, only do UI Design if you know exactly what you are doing, you might think it looks good, ask others to say what it's worth; because that's how I messed up.. and that gave me time to make my own stuff and progress a really good looking UI to gain attraction.
Please be aware if you are enjoying it or not, because don't get hooked into designing if you
don't like it.
Although designing was alright at times, it was not enjoyable to do in my free time. Even if I get high paying commissions, It's just not fun.. I have been in 1 or 2 service teams, they were all a mess and all closing down. It's pointless as they attract uneasy customers that really want you to go bone cheap. By far be individual and do not join any type of team while designing. When I started there was hardly anyone really competing as another, so commissions were random and were not dependent. But now seeing all the people want to open photoshop and spam their advertisements over and over is mostly unmotivating.
I must add a tip, only do UI Design if you know exactly what you are doing, you might think it looks good, ask others to say what it's worth; because that's how I messed up.. and that gave me time to make my own stuff and progress a really good looking UI to gain attraction.
Please be aware if you are enjoying it or not, because don't get hooked into designing if you
don't like it.
