Ryan Weeks

Product Designer | Abstract artist | Entertainment nerd

[Ryan Weeks @ryandweeks]

@Mnopxart Oh thank god you're okay. Was worried about you during all this. Hope you and your loved ones stay safe.

[Ryan Weeks @ryandweeks]

@Mnopxart Thinking of you and wishing for the best. Take care and stay as safe as you can.

[𝓷𝓯𝓽𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓪.𝓮𝓽𝓱 ⋆ @nftlisa]

Morning nerds 🧿

[Mnopxart @Mnopxart]

Details 🫀
Locked Hearts, Fake Promises

[Oksana Bulgakova @art_Bulgakova]

Hello everyone ❤️‍🔥

Link below 👇🏻

[Ryan Weeks @ryandweeks]

@nftlisa There’s this device called a pump I’ve used for 20 years and they’ve kept updating the tech. It’s to the point where as long as I make sure to enter the number of carbs I eat, it functions as an artificial pancreas. The tech is just so good now. Even still never got that low.

[Ryan Weeks @ryandweeks]

I know I don’t talk about my Type 1 Diabetes too much, but having lived with it for 29 years, I want to shout out the Ws when they come. There’s a thing called an A1c that determines how you’re doing and it ranges from between 5-10, low being good. Today I got a 5.9

[Ryan Weeks @ryandweeks]

It’s been a hectic couple of weeks. I fell and broke my elbow and just had surgery. Thankfully it wasn’t my right elbow, but doing design one handed has been an interesting challenge so far haha.

[Ryan Weeks @ryandweeks]

I know everyone’s posting Val Kilmer’s famous roles, but Gay Perry was one of the best performances of his career and he stole that whole movie in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

[Ryan Weeks @ryandweeks]

I’ve been dog sitting for a neighbor and Luke is honestly one of the best dogs I’ve looked after. Now if I can only match his chill demeanor haha

[Mnopxart @Mnopxart]

Why don’t we talk about how death often fuels artists?
Let me explain👇🏼
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[Mnopxart @Mnopxart]

gm 💥

[Ryan Weeks @ryandweeks]

@sz_elod Damn that’s a cool layout. Much respect.

[DANN© @DannPetty]

Something I've noticed from seeing design markets come and go.

I remember when Behance was THE place to be. It was filled with real client work on top or if it was fake work, it was highly involved (the Facebook redesign). Then the fake concepts, templates, and free design files over took the #1 spots and the client work fell off as those things gathered more attention.

Clients would go to Behance and just see that type of work, geared towards other designers, instead of the type of work geared towards clients. There was some incredible work on Behance, it was just starting to get hidden.

This is around the time Dribbble came. With it's invite only system, Dribbble was filled with real client work from the big companies and fun start-ups with the best work on top every morning you checked the homepage. The best of the best designers were there. This was also when the gold rush in design really started to happen.

Then, as more came, it got filled with fake work, templates, and free design files that over took it. That along with really bad leadership, Dribbble fell. Now, hardly anyone that helped build it up uses it anymore and from the sound of it, they are going to push their current customers away even more soon.

Twitter use to be a place where the real work shined through as well, but as we're seeing now, X is starting to become filled with fake work, templates, and free design files.

Now, I don't think X will fall - it's too awesome for bigger things. But I do think it's possible for a new thing to arise where designers can get together and show off some real work to get real clients IF and it's a big IF...IF our industry can get back to where it was where ACTUAL design matters and we're not splitting up into a 100 different small parts of the job that one designer is suppose to be able to do.

I'm aware that sounds prestigious, but that's why these other places became so good for getting real work - the quality was awesome and there was no guess work from clients on what the designer could actually do for a real client.

You see design now days and even though it may look good, you have no idea if it's actually theirs or if any thought went into it other than "will it get me likes or featured." Everything is riddled with bad type, margins, UX and all kinds of design mistakes yet other designers rally on because we're throwing that out the window and caring less and less about good design and more and more about "please follow and give me likes."

We're back to designing for designers instead of designing for clients. And every time this has happened, the market fell and most of those designers ended up with no paying work.

Fake work is awesome. You need to do it. I do it. I did it. It's effective. It's powerful. Just don't let it be all that you do. Don't let it be the only goal.

The ultimate goal is real client work or real side projects. You know, things that bring income. It's not followers on a platform that may or may not be here. X isn't going away but you may if you don't start proving you can make money.

[Ryan Weeks @ryandweeks]

Solved an issue on my framer website and it took like 3 hours but the relief I feel is unmatched haha.

[Ryan Weeks @ryandweeks]

Coming from the mixtape era it just feels wrong.

[Ryan Weeks @ryandweeks]

I can’t believe it’s been over 10 years and Spotify still doesn’t understand that when I make a playlist and click shuffle, I only want to her those songs. I can always tell when they slide random songs in and it still pisses me off. There’s got to be a toggle somewhere.

[Ryan Weeks @ryandweeks]

Things are clicking into place finally. Little bit of a learning curve rapidly learning @framer but it’s been so much fun. Such a cool platform to design on.

[Ryan Weeks @ryandweeks]

At 35, getting ready for bed is a promise not a suggestion.