What is with the seemingly huge influx of people asking things like, "how do I make this," or, "what should a website look like," or, "how do I recreate this design," and on and on. It feel like there are a lot of juniors here, which is all well and good, but that they're not even willing to google something let alone open up PS and AI and start trying to see how they could, in fact, recreate something. There's a rule in the sidebar about, "this isn't a homework forum" but more and more I'm seeing, "I have this portfolio assignment..." "I have this group assignment..." "I have this project for this class..." All of that sounds like homework to me. And really, yeah, come and ask for help but please at least try to solve the problem on your own first instead of just assuming that a group of designers is going to solve it for you.

I mean, are these kids not being taught that one of the fundamentals of design work is to specifically solve problems? I keep seeing posts where there's not even a problem defined. It's just, I wanna make something like this and I'm too lazy to look it up.

Am I alone in being frustrated by this? I know I'm going to sound old in saying this but legit back in my day we had to go and look for answers to problems we'd already defined. Want to learn how to type of a path? You can either look at the help pages or google it, it's not that freaking hard. Seriously, am I just old in this? Are college kids so used to just pushing a button and having the work done for them that they don't know how to look things up anymore? Is trial and error not a thing anymore? Please somebody tell me that beyond being a crotchety old man that I'm not crazy.