{"id":22976,"date":"2015-04-14T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=22976"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:05:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T07:05:02","slug":"confessions-of-a-guilty-designer-15-bold-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/confessions-of-a-guilty-designer-15-bold-admissions","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Guilty Designer: 15 Bold Admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m willing to bet there are some skeletons in your closet. Hey, it&#8217;s cool, we&#8217;ve all made mistakes. It&#8217;s not good to keep all that stuff inside though. It eats at you. A little confession is good for the soul. Here are fifteen confessions from guilty designers who feel that they need to get something off their chest.<br \/>\nIf you see something you&#8217;re guilty of, Pin, Tweet, or otherwise share it out. If you don&#8217;t see one that relates to your particular case of design guilt, write a new one and share it out on social with the hashtag <strong>#designerConfessions<\/strong>. This is a judgment free zone. Vent away.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/04\/03234518\/designerConfessions-2.jpg.webp\" alt=\"designerConfessions-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22977\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/04\/03234523\/designerConfessions-1.jpg.webp\" alt=\"designerConfessions-15\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22991\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/04\/03234529\/designerConfessions-3.jpg.webp\" alt=\"designerConfessions-14\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22990\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/04\/03234534\/designerConfessions-4.jpg.webp\" alt=\"designerConfessions-13\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22989\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/04\/03234539\/designerConfessions-5.jpg.webp\" alt=\"designerConfessions-12\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22988\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/04\/03234545\/designerConfessions-6.jpg.webp\" alt=\"designerConfessions-11\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22987\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/04\/03234550\/designerConfessions-7.jpg.webp\" alt=\"designerConfessions-10\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22986\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/04\/03234556\/designerConfessions-8.jpg.webp\" alt=\"designerConfessions-9\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22985\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/04\/03234600\/designerConfessions-9.jpg.webp\" alt=\"designerConfessions-8\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22984\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/04\/03234606\/designerConfessions-10.jpg.webp\" alt=\"designerConfessions-7\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22983\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/04\/03234611\/designerConfessions-11.jpg.webp\" alt=\"designerConfessions-6\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22982\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/04\/03234616\/designerConfessions-12.jpg.webp\" alt=\"designerConfessions-5\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22981\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/04\/03234621\/designerConfessions-13.jpg.webp\" alt=\"designerConfessions-4\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22980\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/04\/03234628\/designerConfessions-14.jpg.webp\" alt=\"designerConfessions-3\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22979\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/04\/03234633\/designerConfessions-15.jpg.webp\" alt=\"designerConfessions-2\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22978\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m willing to bet there are some skeletons in your closet. 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