I was like a squirrel holding on pointlessly to a swaying trunk about to fall over. Just let it go, squirrel, you can find another tree, maybe even a better one? I tried really hard to use the Spring platform for my designs. I enjoy the simplicity of the platform’s rhetoric. The font feels fresh and clean, like the brand I was trying to create. They probably had some money for a UX designer, or maybe someone had an artful eye on everything. It’s a contrast to a red circle with a big “RB” inside (RedBubble logo).

There were a few issues with areas unrelated to design. For example, on Spring, every time I made a women’s t-shirt, it would duplicate the product in the shop. I could not figure out a way to correct this, even after digging through reddit and exploring the caves of an online shop platform like this. It’s a very lonely place to be lost in, lots of white and letters that lead you nowhere…until you find the messaging support box. At last! Help is on the way: “Hello, how can I help you today?” Then it asks me to pick what categories my question falls in: more thinking, more work, more confusion. For a while, I left it like this, a shop with duplicate products. Why? Why, squirrel?

Now, the squirrel has found a place in the lively platform, Redbubble. It’s feeling like a much better fit. Let’s see though…