BE OVERZELOUS - Personal Development - Religion & Spirituality - Short
Go the extra mile by designing more illustrations and putting ogether more protypes than needed, as long as your primary ones look good, function well, and confer user satisfactio as standalone-creations.
Human vice of 'Loss Aversion' makes it so that we are afraid to cut out 20%-40% material in dismay that that they were a waste of time., because discarding or, rather, ommitting materials indicates time wasting or quality compromise. But remember Shigeru Miyamoto when he, onced interviewed about his video game development mentality, espoused, "Nothing ever HAS to go into a game."
Even if it's good, that possibility is irrelevant if it's a fractured component intermingling with a cornucopia of other design assets, together making up one cohesive, satisfying whole.
In the following graphic design (USE EXAMPLE), there's a dozen or so visual objects that I conceived and later materialized into actual illustrator assets after spending 1-2 hours designing eachbassets. Wanna guess how many of those assets I ended up actuslly using for the project in question? 3 of them - that's a (seemingly) staggering attrition rate of 75%(!).
Still feeling bad about that one half-assed, two-layered dashboard Figma icon you just eliminated from your prototype file, leaving it on the cutting room? Please don't.
Whether you're inclined to believe it or, the vast majority of your un-used assets will have their phoenix-rising moments, either repurposed in their initial form, or, some of them require just a tad bit of touching upb tweaking before successfully included in a future project farther down the line.
And the rest? Well, they won't be seeing the light of day any time soon. However, that doesn't remove them from acting as an excellent cautionary tale that you can look back on in a few months or years when you're older and wiser than ever making such an aweful design again.
More importantly, perhaps, it will, unless you have some form of cognitive amnesia that you haven't informed me about, be a purely educational lesson that you've learned from designing then en route to becoming the excellent designer that you're actively towards becoming.
Or, an old Buddhist proverb,, wisely proclaims:
"Don't worry what dirction you're going, as long as every step you take is in the right direction."