What it takes to become Irreplaceable designer

#Designers spend years getting better at the craft and wonder why the work still feels forgettable. The problem is usually not the skill level. It is what you are practicing toward. If every tutorial you watch, every piece you study, every reference you save is pointing at the same aesthetic, you will get really good at making something that looks exactly like everything else. That is a very efficient way to become replaceable.

The designers who are impossible to ignore are not necessarily more technically gifted. They just trained their eye on different things. (Which sounds obvious until you realise most of us are still saving Dribbble shots from designers who are also saving Dribbble shots from other designers. It is a very expensive game of telephone.)