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or that they don’t want to “stifle my creativity”, I have to spend time undoing the myth of the magical creative. MIK E M ON TEI R O, “D ESI GN I S A J O B ”
allow users to do whatever it is that they need to do, then get out of their way. It’s not as fancy as I think we sometimes make it out to be—we’re not artists or poets. We just make websites. That’s my go-to response when people ask me what I do for a living: “I make websites.” I’m not a something-engineer or a whatever-architect, and I’m sure as hell no “rockstar” or “ninja.” I make websites. I’m alright with that; you should be too. MA T MA RQ UI S , TH E PA STRY B O X PR O J E C T