Monetizing the design in 2018. My results of the year
Results of the year for the UI designer, who didn`t have any interesting projects in his portfolio and decided to create his own product for the now popular Figma design platform.
Previously, I've always been skeptical of such posts. But after the year 2018, which gave me experience and wisdom for 10 years, I realized: I just had nothing to say before.
I haven’t worked in large companies, haven’t arranged design sprints and haven’t sat side by side with the cool guys in co-workings. I’ve been in design for at least 16 years now, I am self-taught, and once I turned out to have not even one interesting project in my portfolio that would work cool and look modern. All my recent years of stable freelancing were the clients with regular orders. They come and go. And 80% of them throw away all your creativity in the furnace later on. As, according to the laws of the market, this number fails after the project launch.