Zakhidnyy Design

2012. I'm in the 10th grade and this year my parents connect me to the Internet at home, which was a miracle. Like most teenagers, I'm constantly on “Vkontakte”, walking around and playing computer games. However, over time, I had a desire to develop my own website. So gradually I started reading various forums on how to develop a website, and everything else faded into the background. Sometimes it's so addictive that I don't notice the time, and I often stay up until the morning solving some task on the site.

In my first year at university, I developed my first serious website with pirated movies. It was about crime, and the whole design was made in the style of Mafia 2. I uploaded the movies to Vkontakte and then inserted them into my site as a frame. Everything is going great, the project is developing, but suddenly a revolution begins in Ukraine, part of the team and Pavel Durov leave Vkontakte, and the new management prohibits the display of videos on other resources. My website gradually falls down, as well as in the top Google results.

Then I decided to develop a new project, but with books. I uploaded the books to my own server, and while filling the site with content, I came up with a "brilliant" idea - to develop a resource where all authors can sell their own e-books independently and it won't be piracy.

For a long time I have been developing the design of this online library (I should note that I did not know all the basics of design and figma tools at the time. Now I'm better at it), combining it with my studies and work. 2018. With a ready-made layout, I go to present it to programmers, SMM, and other people. Together we analyze the market (this is the first thing to do before development the project) and realize that the market is dead and we need to build an audience. And this means a lot of money that may not pay for itself (and no one wants to work for the future).

Recent efforts to merge this with the NFT have failed. 2021. I am completely abandoning the development, so I leave it to you for review, if you have any thoughts on this, write to me, I will be happy to read it.

In conclusion, if you are an ambitious person, try to find a team and move forward together. It is difficult to achieve good results alone. You need a lot of concentration and discipline, and this is not always possible due to life circumstances.

https://www.figma.com/file/uj7WH1tbg2MQiHOdMwtPfC/My-project?type=design&mode=design&t=mRb2D69Nxn2Fsse9-0

The competition was a bit intense, but the emotions have already passed and you can speak with clear thoughts. I wanted to take first place and was pretty sure that "incognito" would be the best work of all, but unfortunately the judges decided otherwise. All the same, 4th place, and in fact 32 out of 252 is also more or less normal, although I am not satisfied with my result, I needed to work more efficiently.

In general, the competition is interesting, you learn something new, you can see yourself from the outside and hear the opinion of other participants, the view on some things changes, and this is also a certain development.

Maybe one day I will participate in these competitions again, but for now I want to improve my skills and develop my projects, although sometimes it is difficult to combine it with the main job.

Sometimes I will post something interesting on this channel (it may be very rare). Have a nice day everyone and a special thanks to those who supported. And finally, I wish everyone to feel their inner navigator and let nothing lead you astray.

Well, a miracle did not happen and my application was still not considered, the judges remained steadfast in their decision, and I also did not approach the competition too responsibly and did not study all the details.

As my philosophy teacher at the university said, "Every minus is half a plus, and every finish is essentially a start." Therefore, we move on with a smile on our faces. There is a new competition ahead, and maybe I will be able to take prize places in it. I made several icons and I personally like the first one the most. Enjoy, because it's the best thing you can do.

Unfortunately, I didn't enter the contest because I confused the hour, but I hope you enjoyed my design.

🎞Video with visualizations

Yurii Zakhidnyi worked on the design
@zakhidnyy

Content:
1. Presentation
2. Video with visualizations
3. Project in figma
4. Archive with all files

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