{"id":30293,"date":"2015-11-09T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=30293"},"modified":"2024-04-09T06:12:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T13:12:29","slug":"what-designers-see-vs-what-everyone-else-sees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/what-designers-see-vs-what-everyone-else-sees","title":{"rendered":"What Designers See Vs. What Everyone Else Sees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it. Once you become a designer the world starts looking a <em>little<\/em> different. What used to look OK suddenly makes your eyes burn, and tools you had no idea about become the most amusing parts of your day. Where others see chocolate, you see packaging&#8230; where others see Comic Sans you see fire. Life <em>did<\/em> really change, didn&#8217;t it? 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