Told I’m thinking too technical because I’m focusing on how to make an illustration work on desktop AND mobile. Well I’m sorry but… you’re too old. Thinking technical is extremely important in times like this.

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I love when non-designers try and backseat design. I know we make it look easy but just because we have hands, that doesn’t make all of us surgeons, it takes talent and training. Only artists understand artists. Hang in there and drink it off, lol.

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Lol and by love you mean it’s the bane of all creatives existence 🙄

That's thinking proactive!

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Yes.

Lol I once got told that I need to stop thinking about the art and just slap whatever is given to me on a comp. That was from both a project manager and a “creative” director

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That’s actually hilarious. What is their argument exactly? Do they not care about it working in both contexts? Which do they want to work?

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If the composition you're working on is meant to be more informative than pretty, yes, you probably are overthinking it. If it's just meant to set a mood, well, is the person saying you're being too technical for what's needed your manager? Maybe try to get more info as to why they think that and don't just assume they don't know what they're taking about. And if they want a centered illustration? Then that's what you do, and maybe by not doingit, what they mean when they say "technical" is meant to dance around calling you overly precious and just to finish the damned thing because there's bigger things to worry about.

Saying it needs to be cropped on mobile as the ONLY option makes little sense - that's just the direction you've settled on and it seems like you've decided not to be flexible about it.

When you get down to it, chances are the older person knows a whole lot more than you - whether it's for desktop and mobile or broadsheet & tabloid sizes, there's nothing special or new going on around making an illustration work at multiple sizes in digital.

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Use a tool like webflow (love!) or build a simple testing environment to show the person the issue and invite them to help you with solutions.

I also find this helps when I’m stuck or think something will work only one way.

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I mean, it’s probably that it needs to be versioned in both 16x9 and 9x16, and just call a media query at the different screen sizes.

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I regularly ask my developers, “Can we do this?” if they say, “yes, but” I ask, what the difference in development lift is? We, together, gauge how much to push. One time I pushed my developers to give me left, right, and center focus areas because we can't forget our desktop and tablet users, and it wound up being something the whole team was glad about and led to a better UX across the board.

If you haven't established editorial guidelines for illustration, you need to work with the situation and make center alignment work on mobile.

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I'm a product designer that can code, and I got this comment once on a quarterly review. It was something along the lines of "Thinking about technical limitations early in the design phase can limit the solution space too much". Up to this day I'm still convinced that we would have landed on the solution I came up with from the start if we would have iterated much more...

This is an instance where you then let them have what they want ... And note the date time and who made that decision. 😂

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