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- palimpsest0
https://galaxy.ai/youtube-summar…Creating Your Own Delusional Bubble
1. Tap into Visualization
2. Embody Your Future Self
3. Ignore the Noise
4. Take Aligned Action- Every pseudo spiritual woman/ yoga-girl is into manifesting.NBQ00
- imma try this, i wanna be a hot yoga girlrobthelad
- You can do anything if you believeskinny_puppy
- dasohr2
Could you feuding twats take it somewhere else please. No one cares. Seriously.
- spl33nidoru2
Should be possible on instagram to create groups to organise accounts we follow.
- Make the plugin!canoe
- Only for stories? with those close friends feature?grafician
- I just want to dump and mute all those "met you once for work" people in there + have the possibility to view feeds by theme.spl33nidoru
- canoe1
https://dribbble.com/tags/grafic…
As expected I was right.
Buttons aka Gaffe has a portfolio of work for literally Acme companies. After a quick look I would expect that about 85% of the "works" in his portfolio are not commissioned, never sold or are personal project/exploration.
How can someone who claims to have worked professionally since 2008 not have any real work in their portfolio? Serious question.
The deadpan giveaway is the lack of fluid understanding of how graphic design projects works... as in he doesn't explain the problem or challenges and the solutions and decision making process. The work itself is not offensive by any stretch in fact there's a few winners in there, but of course, it's not real.
You can't claim to be a professional unless you've dealt with real world problems like clients coming in and ruining your great idea, or a copywriter coming in and flipping the script: adding another 3 words to fuck up your headline layout, or having to pull an all nighter because of the lacky account team not doing their project management job, or any other headache that we have to solve throughout the process of launching a campaign, site, etc.
Jagov creates a perfect world in which to showcase his home work and calls himself a designer. Jagov creates a perfect world in which to showcase his homework and calls himself a designer.
That’s like someone building a treehouse in their backyard, calling themselves an architect, then mocking people who’ve actually dealt with clients, budgets, and clients who want the windows moved after the house is framed.
The difference isn’t taste — it’s battle scars. And you don’t earn those by picking fonts and posting homework.
He's a joke. We all knew it.
About as real as those two randos who suddenly showed up in the middle of the night to 'critique" my work. Two accounts, no content, no history, no prior interaction — just weird personal attacks out of nowhere.
https://www.qbn.com/bigrobot/
https://www.qbn.com/robthelad/They've also been members for 15 years yet there's no content trail. No work. No threads. Just shadows.
What kind of pathetic person creates fake accounts and uses them to harass members?
Maybe the same kind of fragile guy who fakes a career.
- Excuse the typos, I'm still a junior designer at 52 and get caught up focusing on optimizing my hours instead of the work. FLOL!canoe
- You know you've jumped the shark when you start pseeing pseuds pseverywhere.
Take a breather.Nairn - Ya wanna Nairn out later? You should be a verb. Nairning would definitely have many levels to it.canoe
- This is a real example of "product design", it incorporates the thought process, the thinking behind the product, and although it's a little truncated...canoe
- it's what expected. Versus what you see from grafician.
https://dribbble.com…canoe - You are an idiot.
Already I mentioned I work directly with founders, I don't need to post case studies to get jobs or whatevergrafician - Do you not get it you're a troll at this point?
You're just spamming
Your rants are dementedgrafician - You clearly have no clue how commercial projects work, how products work, you just blah blah blah something about me you invented blah gla hb lahgrafician
- Told you already several times SEEK FUCKING HELP! STOP POSTING LIKE A LUNATIC! :)grafician
- grafician-7
I only had and will have this @grafician account, as my work is public and I can own anything I post.
Just like dopepope, PhanLo, maquito and many others - we do the work, we have public profiles, lives outside QBN...
Anybody that says I create new accounts around here is an idiot to say the least...
- You're in good company.palimpsest
- As for the work, posts on dribbble are with real work, shipped most of those. I also post some personal and wip bits.grafician
- NBQ00-4
Imagine people coming on this site for the first time and seeing the stuff that's going on here at the moment.
- The first design convo here in 10 years and it's a pissing contest.i_monk
- I'm not pissing on his design itself. I'm pissing on that he doesn't live up to his own hype which is presented in belittling remarks to exp'd designers.canoe
- i_monk, I've created 2 or 3 work related threads and tried very hard to get people to TALK about their current projects. I've always said QBN is my cubicle farmcanoe
- canoe2
@grafician - Troll me, bad-mouth my work, use Trump's playbook and call me a loser, I get it. But straight-up lying on QBN, where everyone can see what actually happened? That’s next-level desperation. You're not winning anyone over, you’re just reinforcing why no one takes you seriously.
You act proud, but you can’t even live up to your own noise. No integrity, no consistency — just bla, bla, bla. You're filler.
Spineless little twerp — no wonder there’s a thread about how much you’re hated.
- microkorg1
Uploaded my CV to Google Notebook LM
It gave me a deep dive podcast of my CV where there is a male and female presenter talking about my career.
Absolutely insane!I've put it within an audio player and download on the site that contains my CV, Case Studies and Portfolio as a 'bonus feature' haha.
- Are you trying to sell that you're into leveraging AI for clients? If not, do you think a prospect would appreciate more your own voice and possibly face?canoe
- Sounds like you've got a script, maybe flex your creativity a bit.canoe
- I called it 'TLDR - CV Deep Dive', its meant as a bit of fun really.microkorg
- If it will make your prospect laugh, I love it. I always appreciate a bit of levity, it reminds them that you're human and fun to work with.canoe
- jagara7
Dipping in and out of random QBN drama without bothering to understand it is funny. Jeez. I roll my eyes, and I don't even have a life myself.
- exactly, #metoo.renderedred
- Tossing shade while pretending not to. Love it!canoe
- Who's pretending anything? Shade! Shade!!jagara
- Also, most people throw the shade.jagara
- at least katy perry is going to space...neverscared
- Yeah. I'm not loving it.webazoot
- There's one actor that has been trolling QBN and a few members for a long, long time. The response was inevitable.canoe
- So much wasted energy.BonSeff
- #metoopango
- +1 Boncanoe
- canoe-1
Last week was a doozy on QBN, but I walked away with some wins—and even a few lyrics.
One unexpected outcome: I got curious.
After seeing grafician repeatedly belittle my work (and others’) while claiming top-tier status because he works in “product design”—i.e., wireframes and interface design—I started thinking about the creative food chain.
Who really sits at the top when you factor in everything creativity demands—imagination, intelligence, technical skill, logic, and raw, unteachable talent?
As expected: Creative Directors and campaign builders, the ones leading strategy, writing, art direction, and execution, came out on top.
Those designing interface icons... didn’t. Go figure.
But don’t read this as ego. There’s brilliance across all creative services: design, development, advertising, marketing. Different beasts. Different battles. And with my "hand on the bible", I don't look down on anyone because they enjoy making catalogs or doing SEO.
But some people do. The insecure-in-their-own-skin types.
This is for them. The big egos and their subjective fantasies.
May their clients forever ask to... “make it bigger.”
- As you can imagine, AI came up with the report.canoe
- Interesting, what is the source of this table?Salarrue
- Well the column and row headers are all me, the scores are research from AI and its "fair judgment". It took the bot like 5 minutes to make the spreadsheet.canoe
- Which is like 8 hours in human time and 43.5 hours in dog years. I don't know man, take it for what it's worth, I don't think this is hard science.canoe
- I do UX/UI so I am top 5. You do what? Art direction and copywriting? You under. Also Advertisement design meaning banners is almost at the bottom.
You point?grafician - You made a top for yourself to feel empowered now?
How insecure can you be dude
Oh mangrafician - I also do branding for the startups I work with, social media designs, website, apps, the entire flow.
So I pretty much own half this chart.grafician - Also the highest paid jobs are in tech, not in Advertising. Advertising and the agency model is dying slowly...grafician
- I have former colleagues Senior Art directors transitioning to UX jobs 5 years ago. I was even way earlier.
The future is in UX not in Advertising and bannersgrafician - But you do you, do whatever makes you happy dudegrafician
- Triggered? You sound super defensive.canoe
- Chief Marketing Officer - my most recent job title isn't even on there. And I didn't PUT anything on there. AI made this.canoe
- Actually App development full stack should be top 5 alsografician
- When did you hold that title?
What "most recent" means in your context?
Do you have your own studio?
Do you work now?grafician - Sure UX is growing, but Advertising is a 1 trillion dollar market, compared to not even 4 billion in UX.canoe
- Can you please start a "bet against me" thread so you can put your money where your mouth is?canoe
- Triggered? Is you that hating me and trying to make a big deal out of anything I write around here :))
I was telling you the reality of work rngrafician - Last Chief Marketing Officer I worked with was at Holcim Group - the lady didn't knew pretty much anything more than google ads So titles are uselessgrafician
- < this chart is useless btw, it mixes skills with actual job titles
But whatever, you keep pushing and posting for no reason around heregrafician - Typical grafician. Believes AI when he wants to. Titles are only useful when it's his title. Judges everything off of one experience...canoe
- ...just like a racist MAGA hat wearing uncle at Thanksgiving.canoe
- So many words, such little substance. STOP THE NOISE!canoe
- LOL you're going nuts again on your own postsgrafician
- Again, tell us when was your last job?
When were you Chief Marketing Officer?
Where?grafician - Advertising industry is not a T business, you confuse terms and act like an idiot again.
Here:grafician - Publicis Groupe has a market cap or net worth of $22.28 billion as of April 4, 2025. Its market cap has decreased by -17.09% in one year.grafician
- Do you know Publicis?
Do you anything about the actual Advertising market?
I bet you worked all your life at some local company from junior to CMO as you sagrafician - as you say and didn't experience real advertising agencies in your lifegrafician
- But sure, post dumb charts, to win dumb prizesgrafician
- What you're confusing is revenue from google ads, facebook ads, amazon ads, etc. that go to those TECH COMPANIES!
The actual Advertising industry is not THATgrafician - Also don't confuse MEDIA BUDGETS with ADVERTISING REVENUES :))grafician
- Graf I doubt you’ve stepped foot inside a real big boy ad agency in your life.monospaced
- I put YEARS in at DDBSF and McCann moving from production to ACD. What about you?monospaced
- I worked with McCann, Saatchi, DDB, Wunderman and a dozen local ones, practically almost the entire market.
Our juniors at Saatchi are now Group Chiefs in EUgrafician - Never worked with Leo and that group, the quality was always better at McCanngrafician
- I still have people in the actual industry all over Europe, but most creatives switched to tech and fintechs and doing UXgrafician
- The budgets are way lower these days in Advertising. and in Product/UX a single startup can raise $10M series A or B easily in a couple monthsgrafician
- I do apps and all that because that is the most challenging field and it has been for years.
Advertising is dead. Now everybody wins CAnnes and Effies easilygrafician - And whoever thinks we just do buttons and icons in Product and UX they're dumber than rocksgrafician
- I can talk about Advertising with you all day everyday, but I doubt you can say two words about working with digital experiences and productsgrafician
- Again, a solid mix of condescension and ignorance. Your field is not some amazing new mystery, and advertising is anything but dead.monospaced
- Any good creative in the field knows about product design, and the digital journey. We also know that isn’t the start and end of design, nor the most challenginmonospaced
- 1st What you guys call product design is actually Digital Product Design.
2nd It is much more than just wire-frames and interface design.sted - Graf prefers "product design" because it sounds bigger... just like he tries to make it sound more important than other "creative disciplines".canoe
- It's a requirement for his ego.canoe
- canoe the more you post, the more people can see how ignorant poser you are...but do continue with your delusionsgrafician
- monospaced digital products are more complex and require continuous iteration vs. an ad campaign that is dead after a limited time (depending on media budgets)grafician
- But if you consider Advertising to be more challenging, you're probably not that good at it and don't really get the depth of the field.grafician
- All my senior colleagues in Advertising that tried and switched to UX said that is way more challenging that making campaigns.
The learning curve is very longgrafician - But sure, stick to your silly conclusions thinking you always know better and deny anything I'm saying just because you dislike megrafician
- I would love to see you guys how you plan and design a simple app, just a task manager or or a weather app - you will quickly learn is very hard to even map outgrafician
- Ha! Just noticed @sted posted a comment
And yes, the man is right! Thanks for clarificationgrafician - Again I know all about product and experience design. Your incessant need to shitsplain this like it’s some mystery is so annoying.monospaced
- I did a lot of this before it was even called experience design, and I keep up with it even though it isn’t my bread and butter.monospaced
- Obviously as the lead art director I have to work with product and experience people to make sure they stay aligned with the brand etc. I’m fully awaremonospaced
- I wouldn’t say one is more challenging, though. One is more technical, and one is more vibe based. Anyone good can handle both in some capacity.monospaced
- I just can’t stand when app experience designers act like that is the pinnacle and end of design, or as if the brand strategy isn’t their umbrella.monospaced
- So maybe drop YOUR silly conclusions about what seasoned ad and brand designers do and how it relates to your work. Please.monospaced
- For most brands, a digital product isn’t their main product. It’s just a byproduct.monospaced
- sted7
While interviewing designers I learned one important lesson: People who aren't very creative tend to talk about the importance of the jobs and clients in their portfolios rather than sharing details about the work they've done and the ideas they've put into them.
- "pitch or campaign"sted
- Noticed the same thing over the years.Continuity
- whats the ratio ?neverscared
- + do u give these suckers a bold lecture or let them pass by not carrying about the fundamentals of the discipline ?neverscared
- which would make anyone a sucker too....neverscared
- Neither. You listen, write notes, thank them for their time in talking to you, and move on to the next candidate without further consideration. Easy.Continuity
- too easy... seeing what is fatal for the discipline and keep quiet makes u complicit for not improving the designer and the collective......hire... or not...neverscared
- and then coming here and sharing insights u dont like... classic cowardice backstabbing behaviour...neverscared
- Counterpoint to this: often it is a recruiter/HR who is interviewing. You’ll never see eyes glaze over faster than starting to talk about technical/creative.monNom
- But you drop a name they recognize and associate to quality and you are golden.
Probably the same with well known schools. In summary, know you audience.monNom - "In summary, know you audience.
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Yurp. This.Continuity - "and then coming here and sharing insights u dont like... classic cowardice backstabbing behaviour..." Just wtf are you talking about?Continuity
- The big brands and experience gets you in the door, the work you did gets you the job.canoe
- "designers"OBBTKN
- I know past CDs that would judge ONLY logo work. "If they can tell a story in a 2 inch square then they can tell a story anywhere". Believdat!canoe
- @neverscared I actually did that once, and we became good friends few months later when a common friend invited me to a party and the guy was there.sted
- https://www.behance.…sted
- @canoe True. I have Nike in my portfolio and that opened every single door in Budapest, but people were mostly interested in how we landed that client.sted
- the inside -- u share it with us here that they suck as creatives coz they only talk the importance of the job but not the other stuff.. and u dont tell it toneverscared
- them but u tell us here.... thats classic badmouthing behind the back...not enough guts to open the mouth when its at...neverscared
- the loudest in the room is the weakest.microkorg
- what? This is something I tell people outside the scope of work. This is my own conclusion based on my experience. It isn't specific to one person.sted
- Also it would be really weird to educate the candidates, not to mention that they are the ones who apply for a job...sted
- As a matter of fact I shared this with a lot of juniors few years back during the Portfolio Nights in Budapest.sted
- few years back-> decade agosted
- its never wierd to educate..... except u are an anti-enlightment hustler...neverscared
- the loudest is the weakest...but the silent folk who doesnt give proper advise is also pretty puny...neverscared
- if u dont care u dont care... highly likely its better a.i takes over the whole process anyhow, if only half baked folks like cont. are in auhtority..neverscared
- @neverscared there are various reasons why we don't share personal opinions during interviews.sted
- Agree with sted. Sharing personal opinions about an candidate is an absolute no-go in an interview.
You want to get sued? Because that's how you get sued.Continuity
- Krassy16
I love you, QBN!
- Salarrue6
Strange experience I had today, I finished the one month application process for a job, it consisted of 3 interviews for a UI/UX position, the first two were general questions about my experience and how one reacts to criticism, or to phrases like “we have been doing it this way for 30 years”, the last one was an evaluation exercise of the company's system interface (it really looks like a 30 years old software) in all of them I did apparently well. But today the HR person called me and told me that even though the director of technology and the director of project management supported my candidacy, I was not found compatible with the owner of the company, what the hell does that mean? I never talked to the owner. When I asked for details, the nervous person just told me that the previous designer had left for those reasons. I don't know what to think, it was obviously a good position, but possibly I was saved from some crazy megalomaniac boss.
- Be sure the owner is the issue. And that you'd better stay away from that company. He/she's the reason for a system that looks like it's 30 years old...OBBTKN
- Oh no, I thought you had that in the bag!
Sorry to hear, but yeah maybe you dodged a bullet there...grafician - B/C serious response from owner every time logical, meaningful suggestions are put forward: “...but we have been doing it this way for 30 years”prophetone
- You have something in your portfolio what raises conflict of interest.sted
- i_monk5
Fucking migraine.
- Feet in hot water has been making the rounds. Haven’t tried it yet, thoughGnash
- Glass of Cold COLD Ginger Tea + Ridiculously Cold Compress + Dark Room + Silence + Excedrin
or... if sensitive to acetaminophen, switch Excedrin to any NSAID <3PonyBoy - Lysine and ibuprophen takes care of the worst of it, if I catch it in time.i_monk
- <-thissted
- darkness silence and a pukested
- Ouch, take care of it.OBBTKN
- What set it off?Nairn
- Do you get the aura? Thankfully I only have a few a year, but if I see the aura I go full rude mode. Blackout curtains, B-complex, and leave me the fuck alone.garbage
- Micodose LSDmoogchild
- +/- on microdosing during a migraine. I micro'd peyote to counter a heavy migraine that I didn't catch in time. #badideagarbage
- oof the worst - I get em now when low pressure system is incoming, can feel the weight of the low clouds/fog vising on my brain - get wellprophetone
- I caught this one before the aura former properly, but otherwise I always get an aura. Seasonal air pressure changes trigger mine.i_monk
- I used to get aura ones a lot, have worked to exclude as much sugar and also MSG from diet in past few years, now might get one or two aura ones a yearprophetone
- Or as I like to call them, “the shimmers” lolprophetone
