Realist Talk: I Don't Necessarily Need to be Obsessed with UI/UX although I am a UI/UX Designer.
I am talking the real deal now.
In the mean time, I am sort of a senior designer that people will ask around to give some UI/UX advices. BUT, it turns out that I am not socially reflecting that UI/UX vibe on my literal & social media sites. A boomer once directly asked me on why didn't I share about UI/UX on my blog or IG posts, fronting me with the question "You aren't passionate enough with UI/UX, right?"
Yo. Define 'Passion'.
Passion (noun) = strong and barely controllable emotion.
For me, UI/UX is a multi-disciplinary processes from the phase of planning, designing until after the post-implementation of a product. <- Can I control my emotion over seeing a bad product due to its poor establishment of UI/UX aspects? Barely. I hate apps and sites that don't give me a smooth-sailing start. I despise apps that doesn't care much about user's experience – despicable. Okay, tbh, I can tolerate ugly UI design (maybe 30% of my tolerance). But PLEASE DON'T give me a bad UX that can make me feel lost and stupid. Hmmm, maybe I'm a bit passionate about this stuff, but not ultimately.
I am passionate about the process of getting things perfected the way I and all the product user wants it. (Most of the time, they don't even know that they want it, but they need it once they tried it).
1st passion; Solving Problems and Outsmarting Tasks.
Yeah. I prolly like UX part of my career more than the UIs. Every single decision of user experience part is debatable to make it future-proof. Argument for deciding which UX is better for the user is very highly-anticipated by me; I really like it when my team voicing their UX concerns and we debate on it to find the ultimate solution. Idk about you, but for me, it feels fucking intellectual. And i think, my UI skill is just so-so, but quite okay and marketably fine.
By joining this UI/UX industry, my long term goal is to outsmart the world, brainstorming solutions to problems that is not yet existed. Mwahahahha.
Okay guys, back to my blog post topic. The last time I told Allen (my current boss) that 'UI/UX is my first passion –pffft' it was ultimately a mainstream lie, executed poorly to get this job that I am having right now. Like, everyone is doing that right? The 'It's my passion thingy'? Come on lah, be honest. The truth is, I might have more things that I am passionate on, prolly more than my feeling toward UI/UX.
Why I'm not sharing UI/UX tips and knowledge here? Hmmm, maybe later. (But sharing back to the community is a good thing, tho)
2nd passion; Illustrating My Heart Out.
I love illustrating very very much. To the point that I won't do it for money. I will only do it to satisfy myself, therapeutically. I post my illustrations frequently on my Instagram. I don't complain much when my illustrations don't get many like. Why? I DO IT FOR MYSELF. I didn't do it for the likes and for people's approval. I don't make illustrator as my career. Why? If I do so, I don't know what else can I do to de-stress myself after thinking too much from doing the UX.
3rd passion; Self-motivating to Improve Badass-ness.
Recently, the entire human populations are being engulfed into anxiety and depressions. Maybe it is a sudden plague of the generation, like last time when the 'Black Death' pandemic attacked the Europe and killed 75 - 200 millions of the population. But this time, the pandemic is attacking your mental health?! I maybe am too ignorant to care, but at least I would definitely fucking save myself from this diseases! I lost a best friend once due to her insecurities, so 'state of mind' is something that I should never underestimate ever since.
Sooo, these 2-3 years I am very passionate about core-mentality-strength. I am not taking my life seriously, I take my times, I am enjoying my life slowly, doing things I want to do, buying stuffs I want. I don't even care to listen to what people telling me to when it is not useful enough for my own betterments.
So fuck them all negativities, pessimists and all those people that complaining non-stop about how hard their lives are. The less you complain, the more grateful you are, that's the fact. I've been listening to Gary Vee, reading bad-ass crime – assassination novels (lol) and spending my time while working listening to bad-ass motivational songs from my favorite bad, Fall Out Boy.
These are the quotes from Fall Out Boy songs, that I really live up to;
Maybe, these are all my coping mechanism that works on me. Welp, I do I, you do you.
Ok, Ciao.
In the mean time, I am sort of a senior designer that people will ask around to give some UI/UX advices. BUT, it turns out that I am not socially reflecting that UI/UX vibe on my literal & social media sites. A boomer once directly asked me on why didn't I share about UI/UX on my blog or IG posts, fronting me with the question "You aren't passionate enough with UI/UX, right?"
Yo. Define 'Passion'.
Passion (noun) = strong and barely controllable emotion.
For me, UI/UX is a multi-disciplinary processes from the phase of planning, designing until after the post-implementation of a product. <- Can I control my emotion over seeing a bad product due to its poor establishment of UI/UX aspects? Barely. I hate apps and sites that don't give me a smooth-sailing start. I despise apps that doesn't care much about user's experience – despicable. Okay, tbh, I can tolerate ugly UI design (maybe 30% of my tolerance). But PLEASE DON'T give me a bad UX that can make me feel lost and stupid. Hmmm, maybe I'm a bit passionate about this stuff, but not ultimately.
I am passionate about the process of getting things perfected the way I and all the product user wants it. (Most of the time, they don't even know that they want it, but they need it once they tried it).
1st passion; Solving Problems and Outsmarting Tasks.
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| Because my life is less complicated, I just enjoy solving complicated user experience problem. |
Yeah. I prolly like UX part of my career more than the UIs. Every single decision of user experience part is debatable to make it future-proof. Argument for deciding which UX is better for the user is very highly-anticipated by me; I really like it when my team voicing their UX concerns and we debate on it to find the ultimate solution. Idk about you, but for me, it feels fucking intellectual. And i think, my UI skill is just so-so, but quite okay and marketably fine.
By joining this UI/UX industry, my long term goal is to outsmart the world, brainstorming solutions to problems that is not yet existed. Mwahahahha.
Okay guys, back to my blog post topic. The last time I told Allen (my current boss) that 'UI/UX is my first passion –pffft' it was ultimately a mainstream lie, executed poorly to get this job that I am having right now. Like, everyone is doing that right? The 'It's my passion thingy'? Come on lah, be honest. The truth is, I might have more things that I am passionate on, prolly more than my feeling toward UI/UX.
Why I'm not sharing UI/UX tips and knowledge here? Hmmm, maybe later. (But sharing back to the community is a good thing, tho)
2nd passion; Illustrating My Heart Out.
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| Okay. Actually, illustration + a lil bit of animation. |
I love illustrating very very much. To the point that I won't do it for money. I will only do it to satisfy myself, therapeutically. I post my illustrations frequently on my Instagram. I don't complain much when my illustrations don't get many like. Why? I DO IT FOR MYSELF. I didn't do it for the likes and for people's approval. I don't make illustrator as my career. Why? If I do so, I don't know what else can I do to de-stress myself after thinking too much from doing the UX.
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| I'm too loving this skill that I have to the point that I wont use this skill for other people, except charity lah. |
3rd passion; Self-motivating to Improve Badass-ness.
Recently, the entire human populations are being engulfed into anxiety and depressions. Maybe it is a sudden plague of the generation, like last time when the 'Black Death' pandemic attacked the Europe and killed 75 - 200 millions of the population. But this time, the pandemic is attacking your mental health?! I maybe am too ignorant to care, but at least I would definitely fucking save myself from this diseases! I lost a best friend once due to her insecurities, so 'state of mind' is something that I should never underestimate ever since.
Sooo, these 2-3 years I am very passionate about core-mentality-strength. I am not taking my life seriously, I take my times, I am enjoying my life slowly, doing things I want to do, buying stuffs I want. I don't even care to listen to what people telling me to when it is not useful enough for my own betterments.
So fuck them all negativities, pessimists and all those people that complaining non-stop about how hard their lives are. The less you complain, the more grateful you are, that's the fact. I've been listening to Gary Vee, reading bad-ass crime – assassination novels (lol) and spending my time while working listening to bad-ass motivational songs from my favorite bad, Fall Out Boy.
These are the quotes from Fall Out Boy songs, that I really live up to;
They say we are what we are, but we don't have to be.I'm bad behavior, but I do it in the best way.
The best of us can find happiness in misery.
If I can get thru this, I can do anything.
Maybe, these are all my coping mechanism that works on me. Welp, I do I, you do you.
Ok, Ciao.