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How to Critique a Client’s Ideas

How to Critique a Client’s Ideas

Design / Web Design

Building a website is a collaborative process. It works best when both clients and designers can openly exchange ideas.

How to Build Confidence in Your Design Skills

How to Build Confidence in Your Design Skills

Design / Web Design

Confidence is among the most important traits for a web designer. It’s part of what propels us forward and enables us to create amazing things. Yet, it’s also quite volatile….

How to Prepare Your Freelance Design Business for an Unexpected Absence

How to Prepare Your Freelance Design Business for an Unexpected Absence

Design / Freelance Design

Today, we’re going to discuss a rather difficult subject. But it’s one that every web designer should think about: If something happens to you, what happens to your business? This…

How to Prepare Yourself for a Day of Design Work

How to Prepare Yourself for a Day of Design Work

Design / Web Design

Preparing yourself mentally and physically for design work, emphasizing the importance of a healthy routine for creativity.

The Common Personality Types of the Best Designers

The Common Personality Types of the Best Designers

Design

Identifying common personality traits that the best designers share, and how they contribute to success.

How to Build Your Design Business the Right Way

How to Build Your Design Business the Right Way

Design / Freelance Design / Web Design

Learn how to build up your design business with these tips. Find out how to set goals, establish a brand, and market yourself effectively.

Does the Computer Negatively Impact the Creative Process?

Does the Computer Negatively Impact the Creative Process?

Design / Web Design

Examining how computers might negatively impact the creative process and ways to counteract this effect.

Flat Design vs Minimalism

Flat Design vs Minimalism

Design / Web Design

Flat Design. It’s everywhere these days. The newest, highly influential release of iOS 7 for the iPhone has got even non-design lovers talking about it. But many people seem to…

Why Designers Need Creativity & Practicality to Succeed

Why Designers Need Creativity & Practicality to Succeed

Design / Web Design

Balancing creativity with practicality in design, ensuring innovative yet functional outcomes.

Can Technology Really Make You a Better Designer?

Can Technology Really Make You a Better Designer?

Design / Web Design

We look at some of the side effects of computer and internet technology from a designer’s perspective and explore some fixes to the most common problems.

How Your Work Environment Can Influence Your Design Work

How Your Work Environment Can Influence Your Design Work

Design / Web Design

Sometimes, as web and digital designers, we can get trapped in our little world of computers and software, attempting to work out the solution to our clients’ design problems, but…

Putting the Guitar Solo Philosophy into Your Designs

Putting the Guitar Solo Philosophy into Your Designs

Design / Web Design
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