The best thing to come out of this course for me was the feedback I received. I was so, so inspired by the attention to detail from Puno and felt so encouraged after hearing back from her after she reviewed my custom site! I felt more motivated than ever to inject EVEN MORE personality into my designing. I also gained better perspective on how to adjust my site to be more digestible and immersive for viewers.

Puno’s teaching style and the course materials were beautifully designed, thoughtfully structured, and fun, making coding and website design feel approachable and exciting on a whole new level. I also enjoyed getting a chance to revisit and explore my design work, while receiving wonderful insights. It is really encouraging and inspiring to create in such a space. The course has given me a great opportunity to build my studio website and the confidence to expand on my creative career. I am also very grateful for the lovely community that I have had the chance to meet through ilovecreatives.

My advice to anyone trying to take the course is do it! It's worth it even if it takes time to finish. The discord is useful, the newsletters and community as a whole just makes you feel less alone <3 One good thing that came out of the course was it really helped anchor what I already know and where I have room for improvement. I'm more confident messing with css and offering a unique vision of a website!

My favorite thing about the course was the custom site section and getting feedback on my work. When you’re working on a project, it’s so easy to feel stuck if you tend to be a perfectionist or when you’re not sure what to do next, but the community and assignments gave me accountability and an extra push to finish my website (+ realize that done is better than perfect!). Puno also gives detailed, personalized feedback that really helps you elevate your work!

There's more than one good thing to come out of the course. I've gained confidence in myself as a designer, and walked away with a portfolio that I love.

I took the Graphic Design Course first. It completely unstuck me. Like, mentally. Creatively. Existentially. I started letting go of the "right way" and leaned hard into the weird side of my design brain. Then I took the Squarespace Design Course because I was already deep in it and figured, why stop now? It made sense — I’d just built a whole brand in the GDC, and now I needed somewhere to actually put it. The two courses were a match made in heaven.

It was so well-executed, engaging, and fun. I would buy another ilovecreatives course just for the hell of it, because I know i would get a lot out of it and want to finish. Plus, Puno's charisma and the gamification of the course made me feel confident that it was something I would see through.

I took the course to dive deeper into the platform, expand my skills, and gain valuable insights into freelancing. Freelancing was incredibly beneficial, guiding me through the web design process and encouraging me to focus on niching down, building connections, and refining my approach.