Tips for handling anxiety and stress for UI/UX designers

Undermining designers’ recognition for their work and a general lack of respect is increasingly becoming a serious problem. People treat designers’ creative abilities as a water in the tap that they can turn on-and-off. Here are few tips to better handle yourself during these turbulent times 1. Banish Imposter Syndrome: Imposter syndrome is a disorder in which a person keeps doubting his creative abilities and finds himself incompetent. It’s a feeling that you lack talent. You can avoid or handle this feeling by keeping a small log/diary that concretises and acknowledges your everyday effort and discipline for creating beautiful designs 2. Share your problems openly: Know that, the design industry is nurturing, supportive, and encouraging. Be honest with them, open up with your problems and you will be surprised to hear the solutions and the feedback. 3. Ignore social media/competition: If you keep comparing your work with fellow designers, you will always feel that your design is not that good. Comparison steals the joy from the process, making you dislike your designs.