In college I was told that I would never cut it as a graphic designer.
By. My. College. Professor.
And yet another teacher in college told me in my flash web development class that I would never make it as a web developer. (Yes, flash).
So was I really just THAT bad at both design and development in 2001? Well, maybe. Or was it that they didn’t understand why I couldn’t–and even flat out refused to–focus my studies on a single design medium or specialized skill?
Fast forward to today, and the very thing that I was downgraded on has become the key to my success as a UX lead working on multi million dollar software and platforms. Not to mention teaching UX design and web development at the same university 15 years later.
And flash is dead 🙂