Signs, Signs, everywhere a Sign.
Bitbox has put a list of signs together designed to help you find out whether you are a hardcore web designer. Even if you’re not, it’s a fun read and you’re bound to get some good insight in the world of us creative types.

 

 

Here are some of the signs I’m guilty of:

• You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.
• You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
• You consider meals interruptions.
• You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.
• You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up. (I ended up buying the image)
• You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)
• You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
• You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design. (huh, I guess I do go out every so often)

Get the complete list here:
25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer

The Hardcore addendum.
Here are a few other signs that I came up with. This can be a part 2, an addendum or whatever you like.

• You dream in pixels.
• You have a growing collection of ADOBE T-Shirts
• You bite your toungue everytime someone tells you about the site their sibling designed for them.
• You send nasty emails to people with really ugly web sites telling them to cease and desist.

There’s nothing wrong with being a hardcore web designer. Just don’t expect any non-design types to understand.

Do you have any signs of your own you’d like to share. Comment away!

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