The Hidden Cons of Having a Growth Mindset

May 31, 2024By Andy VillegasFeatured, Thoughts, Tips

1. Stress and Burnout Always pushing yourself to improve can lead to a lot of stress and eventually burnout.This constant pressure to get better can make it hard to take breaks and relax because it leads to feeling unproductive or being left behind. But having time to relax and just have a break is important … Read More

Be an extra-ordinary designer

January 21, 2023By Andy VillegasDaily Thoughts, Weekly Thoughts

More than likely I will get a lot of backlash on this. Recently in design, there is a big drive to get into big successful extraordinary tech companies like Google, Facebook or start-ups that suppose to be changing the world. Considered great career prestige to get into one of these companies. This career path has … Read More

5 Tips on improving your designer-developer collaboration

December 17, 2022By Andy VillegasFeatured, Tips

Differences between designer and developer. If you are reading this you should already know the difference but for keyword’s sake and to oversimplify for an introduction A designer’s job is to create an appealing and functional design for a website or application. Developers are responsible for creating the code that will power the design that … Read More

Weekly Thought #2: Motivating your team

December 16, 2022By Andy VillegasInspirations

Hesitant to share this as my team is here and will call me out ?. But I think every manager or leader encounters issues around motivating their team. Here are a few things I believe help motivate my team. Well, I thought so anyway. My team will tell you if I thought wrong. ?  Be an … Read More

7 Helpful Design Resources for New Designers

November 17, 2022By Andy VillegasFeatured, Tips

Below is a collated website resource that I have found with important fundamental design knowledge and a great source for useful design inspiration. These websites, I wish I had known about these when I was still studying, and these helped me move up in my knowledge and skills. Design Kit The website provides resources focusing … Read More

Learnings from the Creativity Course on Interaction Org

October 31, 2022By Andy VillegasFeatured

To help my team tackle this issue of creativity as they handled more problems in marketing and design, I decided to complete a Creative Method Course in Interaction Org. I hoped to help the team and potentially speed up the creative process if possible.  These are the key learnings I got from completing the course: … Read More