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PRO TIP:
Kill her with kindness.
Meet with her and act excited to do so.
I’m serious.
Recommend she takes classes at [insert school or program name]. And come prepared with the website already pulled up on your laptop. She’ll be taken completely off-guard.
Walk her through the courses she’ll need.
Tell her you’d be more than happy to help her as she learns “the correct programs and proper aesthetic she’ll need to qualify as a legitimate art director/ designer.” (Those exact words).
Act as her cheerleader and advocate while explaining the ins and outs of the courses she’s required to know.
Trust me. She won’t want to invest the money or time it takes and will back off on her own… Yet, it will leave you in great standing in her eyes because she’ll think you’re an ally.
Problem solved. 👍
Thank you. Turned out she was trying to upload an image to a 3rd party site for training in our industry and it wasn’t letting her resize it. My sage “design advice” was to ask the site’s support for the image specs for a training thumbnail.
This Zoom could have been an email.
I’ve been totally traumatized by having to see everything this woman has done in Canva. 🤣
Don't be a dick! Just tell her directly that she needs to learn photoshop/adobe and what it really means to be a designer, along with an explanation why and i promise you that advise will pay you in dividends instead of trying to blow her off.
Maybe you can "mentor" her by asking her to bring you designs and make it a learning experience.
im inwardly cringing at this post. you don’t have to give advice if you don’t want to but it seems like she wants to learn from you and improve? why do you want to convince her to stop?
I want her to stop because she’s circumventing Marketing and designing logos with stick people in them, lol. If she’s doing things outside of work or for an internal presentation I don’t care at all.
Just be honest. If she wants to design she needs to put in the work. Get trained in adobe, make some shit, all that stuff. Tell her she isn’t ready, but if she’s willing to put in the work and hours, you’re open to giving her feedback, but set the boundary you don’t have time to be her teacher.
My advice is to work with her..... canva and her type of role is not going to go away so create a brand kit in canva and start training her on the small things that she can do that takes a load off your plate. If she goes, someone else is just going to take her place. I used to hate canva and felt threatened that these people would take my place but they never will and if they are keen to learn use it your advantage.
Canva is a great program for the rollout work and you can set up great templates for juniors to use. Roll with it and use to your advantage- it's not going away.
Let her shadow you or support you when it’s busy but otherwise tell her to stay in her lane
No. That’s a bad political play.
If it's not her role, she has no reason to do your job for you. Can you get HR, or someone else in charge to remind her of this, and what her role should entail.
Otherwise, direct her to online courses, recommend that she looks at other designers on behance, and use each project as an opportunity to mentor her. Mentorship is a great skill to have on your CV, whatever their level is.