Steemit, please help

I am calling on Steemit a little advice and help in an incident that happened on the platform. I will put my direct requests here at the beginning and if you want to read the entire story, see the lengthy paragraphs below this next section.

This is @SugarSteem, prior known as a @steemit redesign project I have been working on for a couple of months with another Steemit user. You've probably seen a few posts we did on it, where I did a complete Visual Design from the UX wireframes. It turned out pretty spectacular looking and I'm super proud of the designs I did:

Why I am writing this and What I am asking for

I asked for credit (tagging my name saying I had done the visual design), and was flat out refused. Now I would rather my designs be pulled out of the project entirely, as it seems no credit will be given in the future unless I’m continuously working on it at the expectations of someone else. So I here asking for the publics support. I am requesting, please, that the original Sketch files I sent be deleted, and not used to further the design of SugarSteem. There are a total of 6 screens I designed, including the homepage for new users (1 screen), the homepage for existing users (2 screens), in tile state (3 screens) and list state (4 screens), the My Feed (5 screens), and the my Blog (6 screens), not to mention lots of other trial and error screens and the process work for all of it. You can get a sense of all the work I did by seeing this screenshot of my Sketch design file:

In detail, why this crushed me, my enthusiasm and love for the Steemit platform and community

Since joining #Steemit in December, I have been overwhelmed in all the best ways to the beauty community it is and the people who create that community - from the entire ecosystem to the small pocket communities that form within. With very broad interests I have integrated myself into many of those pockets: from the weekly @openmic competitions singing alongside a talented array of musicians, to poetry and @artzone posts consisting of painting, writing and music and dancing, to even professional side projects started with other steemians. I've always felt good as a whole as the core of Steemit seems to be all about rewarding users for the content they create. People upvote your posts, comments, and images to give you rewards for making it and putting it out into the blockchain ecosystem. Even subtly it's embedded into the culture of etiquette of Steemit, for example posting the source link to a non original image. There is even @cheetah not who comes and announces blatantly if you are plagiarizing from the great World Wide Web.

So I've always felt safe about sharing my content here, which is quite personal and the literal manifestation of my heart, blood, sweat and tears, and over a decade (10 years!) of studying fine art, design, architecture, and just about anything creative. Steemit is supposed to be a safe place for content creators, and a community based around principles that honor their hard work and dedication and create an ambience of mutual respect and admiration of the work we create, in all of its many majestic forms. I've felt that and seen it embedded in the culture and actions of many since joining #Steemit almost 5 months ago. Last night I felt that honor completely abandoned and burned at the stake, when I visited the profile of a Steemian I had been working with over the past months on a project redesigning a new interface for Steemit. They had started the project and it made it clear it was very much their "baby", but I had dedicated countless hours over the past months to creating the visual design aesthetic to the UX they created. They shared a portion of the SBD, which of course was not much, but I was doing it for the sheer love of designing something beautiful for the Steemit community. And I turned black and white wire frames into beautiful masterpieces, as that is what the profession of Visual Design does (check it out below):

A UX designer creates the floor plans, the "architecture" per se, of interfaces (websites, apps), and a Visual Designer makes it beautiful (choosing colors, font types, adding imagery, etc). We worked together talking and designing and discussing designs over the course of the weeks on an almost every day basis I was spending hours creating these designs. Of course life got in the way, as everyone knows, and things got busy so I had to take a break.

On the left is my orginal visual design, and on the right was the recent post made without my knowledge from another Steemit account ( I found it 2 days after it was posted, and was never tagged). Yes a lot has changed (I had also recently changed the color scheme to blue as a request from the other designer). So the colors have changed, and they spent time adding a lot of small details in on top of my file. But still within the framework I designed.

If you read my last posts, I am currently on vacation camping in France, and preparing to give the biggest presentation of my life next week in the Cayman Islands on behalf of my organization (www.rloop.org), a company I am on the founding team and designing the UX/UI for our blockchain powered platform. Its A LOT going on in life, hence why I had to take a backseat on sideprojects, and even havent been able to post much on Steemit. I let them know that I would be extremely busy these next few weeks but then would like to resume working on the project, picking back where I left off. I made that very clear.

Over the course of the past month, they had asked for the source file (which was 100% my file I created and built from scratch), because they didn't know how to use the design program Sketch for making the visual design. I am not one to refuse things that could be helping and teaching others, so I (hesitantly and reluctantly - as its not normal to give your source files away) I agreed and sent the original file I created via personal email. I even spent an hour or so cleaning up the file to make it presentable and clear to someone else who had not been working in it and may not be familiar with using Sketch to design. I wanted to help. Off I sent all my work, all my editable files, and all my design input and intellect with one little click of the SEND button. Now they are being used directly, (edited on top of), and published without my name or permission, not to mention being profited off of. And it will continue to happen (through multiple posts and new iterations), if I dont somehow try to put a stop to it now.

I'm crushed

As any designer and any content creator knows, it is heartwrenching and soulcrushing to see your work used with complete disregard to how you feel, stripped of whatever small piece of ownership you may have felt. Normally it happens within big corporations, when senior level associates slap their name on the work done by juniors, the brand itself takes over. But even then, you are credited as part of the team. In this case, I have neither.

A simple "visual design by @itinerantartist" would have sufficed.

If you made it this far

I know this is a lot to read and digest. But if you feel inclined, please help by mediating, by commenting how to best remedy this situation, and how to feel like I have some say in a situation where my work is being used in a way I didn't expect or intend. I don't want to create a flag war. I just don't want my designs being used in a place where my name is not allowed to exist alongside it. Maybe if enough people agree, this will influence the other designer to take down the posts and understand why I was so hurt by having my name cut out of two posts that were made with and based on design files I helped mold and create (not to mention how many more posts will be profited off of future screens designed from my template and style guide).

My fellow Steemians

I am asking Steemians who have been involved in supporting the SugarSteem project for your honest advice and support. You are tagged because you have left votes, comments, and re-steemed posts in regards to the redesign of Steemit which turned into @SugarSteem. Everyone listed below has been such a great support of the project, and I respect what you do and have done for the project, community and Steemit ecosystem at large. If you could offer your support, advice, or opinion on the matter it would really mean a lot to me. Even if you disagree with what I am saying, please hear my side and comment why so I can understand. I need other perspectives on this. Maybe I am wrong here, but I feel like my work has been stripped of my name with no credit given, and credit was all I asked for.

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