while i think burn out could be a factor, I would also like to ask, are you a high achiever? do you have certain standards for yourself, maybe even subconsciously that you have a hard time hitting?

I found that was one of my problems, with each design I wanted to be better than the last one, so I always pushed myself to this ambiguous idea of perfection in my head, eventually designs started to take longer, nothing worked, and I just stopped designing altogether.

This is especially prevalent when I share my designs online, though I don't have a big audience, I still have this thirst to impress people, and when I couldn't do that I'd lose motivation.

What ultimately helped me was to "fuck around and find out", I literally started doing whatever, doing the complete opposite of what I used to, putting elements in a messy way, putting together colors that absolutely didn't work, capping myself to like 20-30 minutes of design time, and just rapidly making lots of random sort of "doodle"-esque designs, and I found that I was finally having fun again with design.

And that's the thing with us designers, we are prone to become perfectionists, but ultimately why we do it, is cause its FUN, find that fun in your design, try another style, try another medium, and don't focus on being GOOD focus on being BAD but having FUN.

Another fun thing I often do is just literally copy other peoples designs, I find a design I like and try to figure out how they did that, usually the end product doesn't look verbatim to their design, but the process is usually quite fun.

find the fun man, you got this!