Published on | Prototyping: From UX to Front End — Medium Brooklyn Morris

Growing up, I had always dreamed of being a writer. I wanted to write novels and travel the world, working on my books remotely. I spent an hour writing every day. It was my passion.

When I was first introduced to UI/UX design, it was basically love at first sight. I was fascinated by the whole idea of creating something functional that was still beautiful. Design quickly became “my thing”. It was exciting, challenging, and everything I wanted in a career.

Fast forward a little, and the university year was coming to an end with the summer break only a few weeks away. I was desperately searching for an internship to keep myself busy, and I was determined to find one doing UI/UX design. I convinced myself that if I couldn’t find the perfect internship, I would work on my own projects and practice interface design for at least eight hours every day. After reaching out to a local tech startup, I was offered an internship with their designers, and that was the beginning of my design career.

Since then, I’ve graduated, moved, and was offered a job in Salt Lake City, where I currently reside. Looking back, my design skills have improved significantly and it’s exciting to see results from my hard work.

A few weeks ago, while working on a design for a site, I was asked to rewrite some of the copy.

“Sure,” I thought. “This will be easy. I’ve always been good at writing”.

Two days. I spent two days trying to rewrite some simple copy. Why was this so hard? I’d never had trouble writing before! That’s when I realized that besides the short narratives and UI descriptions, I hadn’t written anything for months.

How could I have let something that I had always been so passionate about slip through my fingers?

My need to feel like an expert in design consumed all my time. Ultimately this lead me to feel like I no longer had any hobbies.

Discovering the career that you love is an amazing thing, but don’t forget about the little things that you enjoy too. So here I am, in an attempt to fuse two passions together. Writing and design. Because it’s okay to love more than one thing.

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