Dear beginners,

I feel obligated to address this as a few people have reached out to me for clarity on this topic.

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Great UX design is practically a combination of 3 things:

- Deep knowledge of UX fundamentals
- A lot lot lot of common sense
- And first hand experience working on products

These are actually the basics but key parts of user experience design.

I see a lot of designers (beginners maybe) post a lot of “redesigns” for their favorite product and get backlashes on the TL for posting redesign without context to it or “shalaye” on their rationale behind the design decision.

I’m here to tell you that this is totally okay. Please redesign your favorite products. No explanation is required tbh. It’s okay to focus on purely UI design without the UX design headaches. Please design design design.

What I’d advise however is:

- Post your works anytime you want
- Ask for feedback (you can reach out to me and if I’m too busy, I’d recommend great designers that can give you constructive feedbacks)
- Make adequate corrections and post again, stating what you learned

Please note that when you post your work, you’d get a lot of negative feedbacks and it may be discouraging. Pay no attention to the noise, cause they are just noise.

Don’t get discouraged if you haven’t figured out how to design great experiences. Every designer is still figuring it out. Experience in our field is the best teacher. You’d fail a lot. You’d fail over and over again. Document your learnings.

You don’t need case studies attached to your redesigns if you were only trying to do a UI refresh of your product. Attempting the redesign is enough. It doesn’t have to be a better version of the original product, in fact. Just try.

Fact is, your favorite product probably have a large design (product) team behind what you use daily. You’re only one person. Don’t beat yourself up.

Keep learning. If you want to add case studies to your design, that’s perfectly fine too. It doesn’t have to be perfect. Just explain things in plain English. Grow at your own pace.

Have a great week!