Designers are burnt out. Call it passion at 60 hours, quiet quitting at 40 - and wonder why 82% of designers are burned out. Design has a problem other tech roles don't. Our work is never done. There's always one more iteration, one more pixel to perfect. Good enough feels like failure. 24% of designers report high burnout - highest in tech (by @lennysan). Not because we work harder, but because creativity can't be timeboxed. Remote work was supposed to help. Instead it erased the boundaries entirely. The industry glorifies "innovation" while punishing anything less than breakthrough work. Then acts surprised when perfectionism becomes the only gear we know. If you've ever felt guilty for shipping something "just good" instead of great, that's not craft - that's burnout rebranded as shipping fast.
