Designer, Don’t Fall In Love With Your Project

Your designs won’t be able to stay loyal to you, so why should you?

Raquel Piqueras
UX Planet
Published in
7 min readFeb 13, 2024

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Your creative work is intimately yours

Have you ever heard a UX designer referring to their latest work as “their baby”? Using lots of possessive pronouns such as MY product, MY design file? Becoming territorial when others…

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From journalist in Barcelona to UX designer in Seattle. Currently designing the future of Cloud Computing in the Azure Team at Microsoft.