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52 Posts That Designers May Find Both Humorous And Heartbreakingly Accurate
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Working in the design industry carries a certain degree of glamor. People from the outside may describe such jobs as “cool” and “fun,” with no idea about what really goes on behind the scenes.
So, to give everyone a lucid enough idea of what it’s like to blend creativity with a client’s expectations, here are posts from the Designers Humor Instagram page. With more than 980,000 followers, it is touted as the “largest design meme account on the internet.”
If you’re a designer and would love something to mindlessly scroll through during your break, here are some posts we’ve collected for you. And even if you’re not working in the field, these are relatable enough to draw out a few chuckles from you.
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Sarah McBride 1 month ago
I mean...its like AutoCAD, ChemCAD, etc. You still need engineers to run CAD programs...lay people cant use it effectively.
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Most of these memes express one of the many frustrations and stressors of design professionals: meeting client demands.
According to creative designer and Alarcon Pro Painting founder Bryan Alarcón, most of these difficult situations stem from two reasons: clients are unable to clearly communicate what they want, and they set deadlines without due consideration for the creative process.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
I only see a floating strap and a floating phone in this photo! How strange! ;)
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
When customers ask for receipts or invoices from my family's business, I save them as PDFs and send them over. Recently, we had a customer who said she couldn't view or open the PDF and she kept calling my sister asking us to "fix it". There was nothing wrong with the PDF when I viewed it myself, but the customer kept saying it was "printing extra pages" when she tried to print it. I wasn't about to try to walk a customer through changing her printer settings over the phone, so I opened the PDF file, screenshotted it, saved it as a JPEG, and sent her the JPEG, which she apparently was able to print just fine. I díed a little inside that day XD
“Endless revisions resonate so strongly amongst us not just due to the subjectivity of design, but mostly because it's a common frustration for many creatives,” Alarcón told Bored Panda. “And frankly, what makes it all the more heartbreaking is knowing that many of these endless revisions could have been avoided if only sufficient time and detail were requested and provided.”
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Michael Smith 1 month ago (edited)
In college I had a prof tell us a story about how his wife couldn't understand why he wouldn't fix their TV because he"knew electronics". This was back when TVs had a big cathode ray tube and high voltages that could kïll you if you weren't too careful.
Alarcón did clarify that creatives also have their fair share of faults. One of them, he says, is when designers accept challenges they don’t understand, resulting in an “endless circle of fixing” in revisions.
“If creative designers can put away their fears and worries that they may not appear professional enough by asking “too much” of the client in terms of explanations, then this avoidable circle of revisions will indeed be avoided,” he said.
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Michiel nospam 1 month ago
Oh, I used to have to say this all the time, back in 2006. In 2026, ppl find other people's surfaces gross and leave them alone. Happy.
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ChiLing saysHi 1 month ago
I received news this morning that the website I use for my portfolio (that I do not update anymore but yk to keep it published is a why not situation) will no longer be supported for my country so um...😬 Ouch
Ultimately, it’s about building a harmonious relationship, whether you’re the client or the designer making things happen. Marc Caposino, CEO and founder of the UI/UX agency Fuselab Creative, shared tips on how to approach it.
“Clients should bring the real problem to the table, not dictated visuals,” he said. “In return, designers should set their egos aside and explain the logic behind their choices in plain, jargon-free language, rather than expecting the work to speak for itself.”
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HeavenlyPowerUp 1 month ago
We have more power in the palm of our hands than NASA when they sent people to the moon, and we use it to "REEEEEEEE," at other people across the world for disagreeing with an opinion.
But since burnout appears to be the overarching theme among these memes, Caposino also offered suggestions for preventing it while staying creative. His advice for designers: embrace terrible first drafts to bypass the pressure of perfectionism early in the project.
“Knowing when to stop endlessly tweaking pixels and step away from the screen to live life is the ultimate cure for creative burnout,” he said.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
Back in the 90s and early 2000s, I was in charge of making the advertising photos for my family's small business. I remember being so happy when I could find clipart or stock photos that had a transparent background. Then when I'd open it in Paint Shop Pro (hey, Photoshop was expensive) I'd see it was a fake transparency and the background was actually the checkerboard squares XD
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Justin Case 1 month ago
This is a "play on words". Panettone is a traditional Italian sweet bread that originated in Milan. Pantone is a standardized color matching system with each color having an assigned unique code number.
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Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 1 month ago
I got a gamer mouse with programmable extra buttons because I liked the lights, but being able to set those side buttons to ctrl+c and ctrl+v has saved me minutes of my life since I got it about four years ago. I also have the center one set to ctrl+s because that's the save shortcut in my art program. Best thing I've ever spent money on.
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StrangeOne 1 month ago
I feel sorry for the psychiatrists and psychologists. They would literally have to run away to not be hassled in doing free work.
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David Paterson 1 month ago
Well, given that the client is guaranteed not to have Adobe Illustrator, sending them an .ai file is going to be pretty useless isn't it.
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CarnwennanB312 (Meg) 1 month ago
Yeah, I would. Let's not lie to ourselves here. When that font it missing from a clinet's design file I download that thing off DA fonts and never look back.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago (edited)
"The music that girls really want to hear" - ah yes, because "girls" are all the same with all the same taste in music. Girls really are just a hivemind colonial organism similar to a Portuguese man o' wár - we're all just identical units making up one organism called "girls" - /s in case unclear XD EDIT: I just want to mention that I was so caught up in the awful-sounding explanation text that I didn't even notice how godawful the logo is! holy shít!
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