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  • Your Graphic Designer Has Your Name in a Calabash if You Say Any of These Things

    Next time your designer coworker annoys you, pull up this article and start saying all these phrases to them. They鈥檒l scream and beg for mercy. It works like an exorcism.

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    Don鈥檛 get it twisted: Designers are annoying as fuck. They think they鈥檙e better than the rest of us because they know how to use simple Photoshop, and say words like 鈥渉armony鈥 and 鈥渟ans serif鈥. So don鈥檛 think this article is a list of things curated for you to take out of your vocabulary when talking to designers. Far from it. These are phrases and sentences to say to your annoying designer friends (or coworkers or enemies) if you want to piss them off.聽

    P.S.: I got this list from actual designers. I approached them pretending that I wanted to tell people not to say these words. Now, I鈥檓 weaponising their fears. 

    Make it pop

    Someone said, 鈥淢ake it pop? Na pussy?鈥 And it just reminded me of this video. 

    It鈥檚 not giving

    Say this to them and end it there. No extra feedback, nothing. Just look at it, say those three words and watch their entire day get absolutely ruined. But remember, they deserve it.

    I鈥檓 a designer too, I can do it myself

    When you say this, just duck behind something because they will attack you. 

    Fix it. You鈥檙e the designer

    You can throw in a little, 鈥淒o your job.鈥

    I want to learn photoshop/figma

    The fact that they don鈥檛 like people saying this shows that they鈥檙e proper haters. Like, you don鈥檛 want me to be a designer too? Why?

    You should learn product design

    Apparently, designers get asked if they do product design like three times day. Be the person that makes it four times. 

    It鈥檚 just a small design. It shouldn鈥檛 cost much.

    For maximum effect, you can use this one in combo with any of the above, most especially, 鈥淚鈥檓 a designer. I can do it myself鈥.

    Is it not just Canva? Why are you wasting time? 

    When your designer is taking more time than required to finish a task, simply berate them by saying the above words and watch them fall on their knees in agony. Works every time. 

    My wife/cousin/(any random person) doesn鈥檛 like it

    Even if you like the design, say someone else doesn鈥檛 like it and then proceed to not give a reason why. We鈥檙e turning you into a villain small small. 

    Just do you


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