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Eva, thank you for sharing your story! The clarity and honesty in your journey is very inspirational. I switched from pursuing fine arts to design in my late 20s. I was disillusioned with how performative much of the 'fine art world' was, and more importantly, wanted to start and support a family. I've deeply enjoyed how collaborative design is and bringing better experiences to end users. It has always been clear to me that it is a commercial application of skills to further a business strategy.

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Thank you for sharing your story Lawrence!

Indeed, the art world is highly performative and a bit of a parallel universe to the actual world of creating art.

I enjoy how straightforward design is and - as you very well stated - a commercial application of skills to further business strategy.

Thank you!

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Wow, speechless!

What a great storytelling Eva, as a good lover of literature I must say that I was captivated by your story, I was eager to read much more, I hope you can continue writing... 💜

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Thank you so much for the kind feedback Fatima.

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Thanks for sharing this. You write well.

> I taught myself Photoshop and Illustrator. I got very good at it, but the steep

> learning curve with all Adobe products constantly left me wondering - who designed this?

I think many people who become product designers have a story similiar to this one :)

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Thank you!!

The answer finally came to us when we became product designers LOL

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