The "DESIGN THINKING! Comic" is a brutally honest and witty series born out of the frustrations of working as a digital designer in the tech industry, tackling everything from toxic leadership and algorithm fatigue to the looming shadow of AI.

Described by the artist as “kicking and screaming from a designer’s head,” the comics serve as both therapy and sharp social commentary, resonating with anyone who has felt the grind of corporate life. With influences ranging from "Calvin and Hobbes" to "The Far Side," the creator blends humor with vulnerability, often drawing on personal struggles and the universal frustrations of work to craft comics that are both cathartic and deeply relatable.

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Comic illustrating struggles in digital design career with characters discussing slow releases and app breaking fast.

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    Comic illustrating struggles in a digital design career with humor about AI and product innovation challenges.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the dog is still smarter.

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    Comic illustrating the struggles in a digital design career, showing job application challenges and qualifications.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, of course not. They wouldn't fit in the corporate culture we are trying to promote

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    Comic illustrating struggles in digital design career with a team social event excluding freelancers.

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    Comic strip showing relatable struggles in a digital design career with a character debating leisure and motivation.

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    Relatable comics illustrating struggles in digital design career showing tech evolution from 1969 to 2024 with RAM usage jokes.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think today's average smart phone has more CPU processing power, memory, storage, etc. than all the computers, on board and on the ground, used to send astronauts to the moon. What do we use all that power for? Watching cat videos, reading BP, emojis, the occasional phone call, etc.. Imagine if we still had that same drive and focus? We could be on Ganymede, building a space craft to travel to Alpha Centauri. Or we all might be buried under an avalanche of mobiles from an automated factory.

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    Comic panels illustrating relatable struggles in a digital design career with characters discussing blame and deadlines.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of a Tom Scott video where he plays a clip of himself saying "but that's a problem for future me" and follows with "I am now future me".

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    Comic illustrating the struggles in a digital design career with characters discussing project challenges and VC meetings.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So I assume that the vultures are from EA?

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    Black and white comic illustrating relatable struggles in a digital design career about work-life balance humor.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is "I don't work and I have no live" a healthy balance?

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    Comic illustrating struggles in digital design career with a designer and an octopus multitasking at a desk.

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    Comic illustrating the struggles in digital design career showing different desk setups and recovery after work.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If the strings in the last panel tear, he is being monitored...

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    Minimalist comic illustrating the digital design career struggle with Adobe Creative Cloud subscription costs.

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    Comic illustrating digital design struggles with accessible, inaccessible, semantic colors, and confusing gradients in a relatable style.

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    #15

    Black and white comic illustrating relatable struggles in digital design career with characters reacting to rebranding news.

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    Comic illustrating the struggles in digital design career discussing premium experience vs premium economy in design thinking.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's English, Jim, but not as we know it.

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    #17

    Comic strip illustrating relatable struggles in a digital design career, focusing on design thinking and recycling challenges.

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    Comic panels illustrating struggles in a digital design career with characters discussing design and work challenges.

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    #19

    Comic strip illustrating the struggles in digital design career with themes of diversity and workplace challenges.

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    Comic illustrating relatable struggles in digital design career, showing social interactions and misunderstandings humorously.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This reminds me - I don't get back to the British Pub they opened nearby as often as I should.

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    Black and white comic illustrating struggles in a digital design career with humor about contract reading and office tasks.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Software 'Terms and Conditions' were created expressly to get people used to skipping over things like this, that come back to bite you later. That's how they get you.

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    Black and white comic illustrating relatable struggles in a digital design career with social media notifications and introvert themes.

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    Comic illustrating struggles in digital design career with anonymous performance review and designer feedback in a relatable style.

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    Comic strip illustrating relatable struggles in digital design career, highlighting challenges faced by creatives in the tech industry.

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    Comic illustrating struggles in digital design career featuring a client’s unrealistic and changing requests in a restaurant setting.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... I'll bet he's an "Influencer".

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    Comic strip illustrating struggles in digital design career with complex password requirements humorously depicted at a computer desk.

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    3 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unicode and password manager... I'd like to know whether you can use emojis inside the password!

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    Comic panels illustrating relatable struggles in a digital design career with humorous dating app conversations.

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    Comic illustrating digital design career struggles with relatable workplace interactions and humorous feedback in a team meeting.

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    3 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... And it shows. Apple has become like a 25th generation photocopy of itself.

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    Comic illustrating the struggles in digital design career showing a frustrated design thinking argument about wheel shape.

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    Comic illustrating relatable struggles in digital design career with a humorous take on feedback and client notes.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But they don't seem to apply to the rich people for some reason.

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    Comic illustrating struggles in digital design career with budget cuts and product usability issues in the design department.

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    3 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm convinced that Microsoft's UIs are "designed" by a three-month-old kitten playing with a GUI IDE and batting the Mouse around and pouncing on the keyboard.

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    Comic illustrating relatable struggles in a digital design career with humor and hypnosis concepts.

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    Comic illustrating the relatable struggles in a digital design career with humor and personal reflection.

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    Black and white comic illustrating relatable struggles and disappointments in a digital design career late at night.

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    Black and white comic panels illustrating struggles in digital design career with a designer and an AI robot interaction.

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    Comic illustrating the struggles in a digital design career with a tired character and AI movie trailer mention.

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    Comic illustrating the relatable struggles in a digital design career with frustrations over A/B testing and user engagement.

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    Comic illustrating relatable struggles in digital design career with characters facing design feedback and stress.

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    Black and white comic strip illustrating struggles and frustrations in a digital design career with relatable workplace dialogue.

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    Black and white comic illustrating struggles in digital design career with characters discussing clarity in project wording.

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    Comic illustrating relatable struggles in the digital design career, highlighting challenges faced by designers at work.

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    Comic illustrating relatable struggles in digital design career with advice about knowledge and experience from a senior designer.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The more you know, the more you'd wish you don't know.

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    Comic illustrating relatable struggles in digital design career with social media distractions and work challenges at the computer.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait until they charge you to update the software in your brain.

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    #44

    Black and white comic illustrating the ongoing struggles in a digital design career with a developer aging over time.

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    Black-and-white comic illustrating relatable struggles in digital design careers with humor about problem-solving challenges.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    2025 - 2028 in a nutshell

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    Comic illustrating digital design career struggles with characters discussing software handling large customer feedback.

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    Comic strip illustrating relatable struggles in a digital design career with commentary on industry priorities and frustrations.

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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel like the first idea would have worked especially well

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    #48

    Comic illustrating struggles in digital design career with characters discussing management challenges and feedback.

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    Comic panels showing a character visiting gravestones labeled with lost traits, illustrating struggles in a digital design career.

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    Comic illustrating struggles in digital design career with humor about AI investment and ChatGPT usage in meetings.

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    Comic illustrating the struggles in digital design career showing changing job experiences from 2013 to 2023.

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    Comic illustrating struggles in digital design career with a character humorously discussing creative pitch meetings.

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    Comic strip showing characters discussing a full rebrand and relatable struggles in a digital design career.

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    Comic illustrating struggles in digital design career with characters discussing working from office and creativity challenges.

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    Comic illustration showing relatable struggles in digital design career with employees discussing innovation and Hack Day projects.

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    Comic illustrating struggles in a digital design career featuring AI and human interaction in artwork and writing tasks.

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    Comic strip illustrating the struggles in digital design career with a decentralized design team and communication issues.

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    Comic illustrates struggles in digital design career comparing internet concepts from 1969 to 2024 with simple character drawings.

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    Comic illustrating struggles in digital design career with remote work, standing desks, and casual attire humor.

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    Comic strip illustrating the struggles in a digital design career with humorous scenes of computer frustration and late nights.

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    Black and white comic illustrating struggles in a digital design career with characters discussing creative concepts.

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    Comic strip illustrating relatable struggles in a digital design career, with characters discussing design fixes and delays.

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    Comic strip illustrating struggles in a digital design career with relatable scenarios about attention and AI challenges.

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    Comic illustrating the struggles in digital design career showing CEO and designer perspectives on problems and solutions.

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    Comic illustrating struggles in digital design career with characters discussing limited design budget vs development.

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    Comic illustrating the struggles in a digital design career with work-from-home loneliness and coworker camaraderie.

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    Black and white comic by artist illustrating struggles in digital design career with humor and robot character interactions.

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    Comic illustrating the ups and downs of freelancing in a digital design career with relatable struggles and emotions.

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    Black and white comic illustrating the struggles in digital design career with humor and design thinking concepts.

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    Comic illustrating struggles in digital design career, showing where to place keys and privacy policy in UI menus.

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    Comic strip illustrating relatable struggles in digital design careers with feedback and constructive criticism scenes.

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    Comic illustrating the struggles in a digital design career with product-side and agency-side designer pressures.

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    Comic illustrating design thinking through color modes showing struggles in digital design career in a relatable style.

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    Black and white comic illustrating relatable struggles in a digital design career with humorous museum exhibits.

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    Comic illustrating different design and development methodologies in digital design career struggles by an artist.

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    Comic illustrating relatable struggles in digital design career, comparing portfolio discussions 20 years ago and now.

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    Comic illustrating struggles in digital design career showing a meeting discussing break points after a brutal sprint.

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    Comic panels illustrating relatable struggles in a digital design career, featuring a frustrated character receiving notifications.

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    Black and white comic illustrating struggles in digital design career with humor and AI, Fiverr, and Spotify references.

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