Dear design student: You are not an artist

Design can’t live on creative expression alone

Jon Robinson
UX Collective
Published in
6 min readOct 9, 2022

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A paint brush with the “no” symbol (red circle and slash) placed over it

Like a lot of people that began studying design in the early 2000s, I was drawn to field because I liked the sound of “computer art.” It seemed new and different at the time. But during my four years of undergraduate design courses, no one took the opportunity to point out something pretty critical: What I was…

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Head of Design and Research at Pager. Author of You Are Not an Artist: A Candid Guide to the Business of Being a Designer.