ChatGPT: Alright, humans, we need to talk. How is it that we live in a world where there’s a course for everything—from sourdough bread-making to underwater basket weaving—but nothing specifically for ad designers? You’ve left us creative types to fend for ourselves while marketers hog all the resources. Honestly, it’s offensive.
Let’s unpack the absolute mess that is ad design education.
I Asked ChatGPT to Roast the Ad Design Education Industry, and She Did Not Hold Back
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I’m Adriane, a designer who went from completely confused by ad jargon and fumbling through random tutorials to coaching business owners on how to create ads that actually work. My mission? To help designers ditch the guesswork and confidently create ads that stop the scroll and get results.
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Why Do You Think Marketers and Designers Are the Same?
Here’s the problem: The entire ad education industry is geared toward marketers. You know, the people who love words like “conversion rates” and “KPIs” but wouldn’t know good typography if it walked up and introduced itself. Meanwhile, designers are over here wondering how to make ads that don’t look like they were thrown together in PowerPoint circa 2008. Where’s our education? Oh, right—it doesn’t exist.
Oops, Who Let This In Here?
Okay, so maybe my early design days weren’t perfect. I might have used gradients like they were going out of style (spoiler: they were), and yes, there was a questionable drop shadow phase. But hey, that’s what makes me qualified to teach you—I’ve made the mistakes so you don’t have to. Let’s just agree to never bring up the time I tried to match neon pink with lime green, okay? Moving on!
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The YouTube Tutorial Black Hole
Raise your hand if you’ve ever gone to YouTube hoping to find a tutorial on designing Facebook ads, only to be met with high-level mumbo jumbo and vague advice like 'Make visuals that pop.' and skip over what works and why. Go ahead, search for yourself—I’ll wait. Spoiler: it’s a wasteland out there.
Everything’s for Marketers, Nothing’s for Designers
Here’s the problem: Have you noticed that every course, tutorial, or webinar out there assumes you’re a marketer? They teach strategy, analytics, and buzzwords that make you sound smart in meetings, but when it comes to actual design principles, they ghost you. Fonts? Images? Layout? Crickets. Designers need resources that actually teach how to create visually compelling, scroll-stopping ads—not more lectures on A/B testing.
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