Make it Pretty

Alicia Cressall
5 min readMay 1, 2019

Emotion in Design

Designers frequently get described as the people who make things pretty. It isn’t exactly flattering and it definitely doesn’t capture the full picture of what a designer does. It’s difficult not to bristle at the over-simplified description of our role. When our job is described this way we tend to translate it to “someone else does the thinking and the designer adds fluff,” implying that design doesn’t…

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Alicia Cressall

A designer writing about design and maybe some other things. Senior Growth Designer at Parabol