I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, so one of the, some of the times, I like to go back and look at all the articles I've written,

because I've written a lot of articles, and do podcast versions of them. So this one was from way back

when it was called Design 101. I think what happened was we had done a

great designer search. And so I had to read through a lot of design submissions. Now, normally,

I don't get to see unsolicited. Well, I don't get to see unsolicited designs, but the great

designer search and you make the card. I'm sorry, it wasn't for the great designer search. designer search and you make the card.

I'm sorry, it wasn't for the great designer search.

It was for you make the card.

So you make the card was a thing we used to do where we let the audience vote on things.

And sometimes, like for mechanics, people could send in suggestions.

So at one point, we were getting mechanics in for this card.

And so I forget, I had to read through, I mean, thousands and thousands of submissions.

I think I did have a little bit of help.

But anyway, it was a chance for me to see a lot of designs by a lot of more amateur designers.

Anyway, it inspired me to write an article, which I call Design 101, and in it, I explained what I thought the biggest beginner design mistakes were.

So for people that are just starting out as designers, what were the biggest mistakes?

The article, I listed five mistakes, but for extra content here on the podcast, I've opted to seven

mistakes. So that is the topic today. I'm going to walk through what the mistakes are that I

see most commonly in, you know, beginning designers and, or less experienced designers.

And I'm going to walk through why it's a problem, how to fix it, and such.

Okay, the number one problem I see with, you know, beginning designers is there's too much

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