Stop designing landing pages and making it look fancy without any clear content architecture or information architecture #IA #UIdesign #UI

Upcoming designers and sometimes designers who are already in the game does this.

It’s far better, portfolio wise, educational wise, growth and network to take the “solve a problem approach” before I explain what I mean

Anybody can drop boxes and add colors, that’s why when I see another “I redesigned Twitter” I just get pissed, cos what I see is, just another color,shadows, and border radius designers.

Design is about solving problems and making it easier for users to find what they want

People want to know how you would solve a problem, your design approach to a problem, why would use this approach instead of the other. Not design another Instagram for designers and making the CTA buttons same gradient colors

So what’s the “Solve a problem” approach. It’s simple. Take a problem in any niche you are interested in. Then design a product that solves a problem in that niche.

It’s better to have in your portfolio 2-3 solid and complete design of a solution to a problem...

What would “solve a problem” approach do for you?

1. You can actually create a community of interested people as you showing them daily or weekly, what problems you encounter and how you solve them

2. You would have a solid project in your portfolio, one that solves a problem

3. You would also have written some articles about these approach.

It’s easier to get noticed by a firm when you even decided to solve a problem that firm is facing and then writing about your approach and sharing on SM than just designing another one page login screen