I’ve been approached by clients with projects and ideas for their websites—ideas that help their websites stand out from the competition but are difficult to execute. These tasks I’m not sure I can fulfill, tasks that would require time to research, experiment, and ask my colleagues for help. Those difficult projects and ideas are actually what engage me as a designer, prompting me to think creatively about the problems and come up with a plan or an alternative route to achieve the end result. If it were easy, a lot of people would do it already or jump at the chance to make some money. There would even be solutions for it, and your price and value would go down as a result.

The difficult projects are what separate you from other designers. The projects that require more risk, effort, and a strong connection between you and the client to be successful are actually the ones that are most meaningful and make you a better designer and collaborator.

Try some designs you haven’t done before, challenge yourself, and be better. Work for what is right and hard, not what is easy.