![]() If you’re going to do an incredible redesign, keep in mind it has to be solving those same business problems. The point is: designers solve business problems using software. Designers are solving a problem artists are… oh, who knows what artists are. That would be fine – if designers were artists. Looks nice, but WHY? Why make users scroll even more than they already have to? Why display 4 groups with no 'more' button when the users belongs to 32? Why put the 'like' button where users will confuse it with 'Post'? Why make the chat sidebar the most visible thing on the whole page? – and why is it so blue? – and why is it 50% wider than it needs to be, making it even MORE visible? And why. The blowback against unsolicited redesigns comes from designers being lazy, and treating these things as glorified make-a-pretty-picture-in-Figma exercises. That alone will put you in the top tier of redesigns. Figure out the trade-offs of various solutions. ![]() The answer is simple: do your unsolicited redesign in the same manner you would do your very best professional work. Yet I keep reading about people who get hired (sometimes by their dream company) because of their unsolicited redesigns. These have earned a pretty bad rap in design the last few years.
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