What are you learning or doing at the moment to move yourself forward in you career as a designer?
Saw this posted over on a Facebook group and thought it might be a good topic here, if something similar has not already been posted.
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I know everybody is a photographer these days, but Iāve been working on my photography. I have a small shooting space in my basement. Most of what I do is simple table top product shots that require even lighting. Iāve been working on getting better at composition and lighting to move beyond the simple product shots.
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Reading GDF.
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That is a really interesting question! I have been trying to build my ideation skills. I have learnt that if the concept is strong, the design will automatically be strong!
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Iām learning today how to pull bleeds on a gradientalicious logo.
It isnāt going so well.
I get paid by the hour BTWā¦
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Today is my first day of fall classes. Excited for my web design 2 class 
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Patience
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Let me know if you figure that one out.
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Iāve been practicing at that for years and just canāt seem to get the hang of it.
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Itās on-going.
How amazing javascript truly is!!!
After 35 years in the business you would think thereās nothing left to learn. Not so - I learn something new every day. This week is fairly routine so anything new will come as a nice surprise, which I look forward to.
Yesterday I learned that even if the boss is on holiday, you can still be busy and end up doing OT.
Today so far (9:20am) Iāve learned that there are still people out there who can ask interesting questions, and that this forum is still full of people of skill, wit and humour.
Last week I learned that the German for āHorse Feathersā is āPferder Federnā. Say it quickly 3 times.
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I just finished 2 online courses yesterday, WordPress and SEO. Iām still annoyed by WordPress, but thatās my own fault. I just need to get with the times.
Iām annoyed by WordPress too. Itās the most popular of the various content management systems, yet in my opinion, itās the worst one.
As for me learning things. Today is a day free from learning and one for production.
Yesterday, I learned how to create PowerPoint slides and decks. Yeah, I know, itās something I should have learned years ago, but Iāve purposely avoided doing so. Iāve always hated it based on my early 1990ās experience with the awful application. With that in mind, Iāve always steered clear, and have always found it useful to profess complete, honest and befuddled bewilderment when someone asked me to help them with their stupid, boring speech.
A nice freelance thing came along, though, that required it, so I finally broke down, bought a copy and dived into it yesterday. Itās much better than I remember and simple enough to figure out without resorting to a manual. With luck, Iāll be able to forget what I learned in a few weeks and go back to my previous state of ignorance.
It was never as bad as its reputation.
Oh no, it used to be horrible in the 90s. PowerPoint (at least recent iterations) is surprisingly pretty good nowadays. Like B I used to dread it, but now Iām the āteam expertā on it (which I think just means no one else wants to mess with it. Ha!)
I was that too, starting around 1994. There are a lot more features now, but its core functions work pretty much the same way they did back then. My biggest gripe with it, and all of MS Office, has always been the over-automation of the developersā assumptions with respect to the usersā desired results.
Oh, and by the way, I didnāt learn shit today.
The first thing that came to mind is the General Electric logo.
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Using the word ā¦ concatenate.
Iām a bit of a control freak; Iām trying to learn how to let go of designing on every project and instead let staff handle it all the way through.