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7 Questions to Ask your Client as a Freelancer

7 Questions to Ask your Client as a Freelancer

Freelance

Understanding what your client wants is absolutely crucial as a freelancer. Bad communication can threaten your livelihood as a freelancer, putting you at risk of not only not getting clients,…

The Grumpy Designer: Work How You Want To, Adjust When You Have To

The Grumpy Designer: Work How You Want To, Adjust When You Have To

Freelance

How many times has your web browsing or social media feed led you to an article telling you not to do things the way you’re doing them? It seems like…

Recharging Your Creativity

Recharging Your Creativity

Freelance

Sometimes, the same old routine of sitting at the computer can be draining. This is especially so when you spend most of your time doing grunt work or trying to…

What Has Happened to All of the Web Design Ideas?

What Has Happened to All of the Web Design Ideas?

Design / Freelance

We all know that most design clients are fairly predictable in tastes and not exactly thrilling to work for. I am sure you are not clapping your hands in excitement…

What Do You Do When the Project You’re Working on No Longer Excites You?

What Do You Do When the Project You’re Working on No Longer Excites You?

Design / Freelance

Inspiration and passion are a designers’ daily bread. Without them we crumble, wither and are reduced to mere pixels pushing hacks. But the problem with passion and inspiration is they’re…

​Top 5 Myths About Professional Indemnity Insurance for Freelancers Sponsored

​Top 5 Myths About Professional Indemnity Insurance for Freelancers

Freelance

Q: What’s less sexy than business insurance? A: Going out of business because you didn’t have business insurance. Designers, developers, artists — in fact, all kinds of creative workers who…

10 Tips to Help Resolve Creative Conflicts

10 Tips to Help Resolve Creative Conflicts

Freelance

Collaboration is how things are accomplished these days. With collaboration, we can reach incredible creative heights. To get there, though, sometimes we have to slog through conflicts due to incompatible…

Project Management Tips for Creative Freelancers

Project Management Tips for Creative Freelancers

Freelance

Creative agencies have a lot of choices when it comes to project management tools, but not every solution takes an integrated approach. Putting too many different systems into place means…

How to Become a Designer Without Going to School

How to Become a Designer Without Going to School

Design / Freelance

Humans have been creating art for thousands of years, with the oldest known human-made works of artistic expression dating back 40,000 years to caves in Indonesia. But despite nearly 40…

How to Involve Decision Makers in the Design Process

How to Involve Decision Makers in the Design Process

Design / Freelance

At some point in your design career, you’ve probably been in a meeting with a client discussing design for their website or product, and the conversation starts to turn toward…

Things to Consider When Hiring Subcontractors

Things to Consider When Hiring Subcontractors

Freelance

When work volumes surge, or when you simply have a project you don’t have the skillset for, hiring subcontractors is one path you may consider. However, before you do so,…

Things I Hate about My Clients

Things I Hate about My Clients

Freelance

In the Things My Clients Hate. What about Yours? article I discussed 5 things my clients hate. Now, let me present the other side of the story – i.e. 5…

7 Things to Think About Before Setting Your Freelance Rates

7 Things to Think About Before Setting Your Freelance Rates

Freelance

Setting rates is one of the hardest parts of being a freelancer. So don’t beat yourself up if you find it difficult at first. Often, freelancers have a hard time…

When is it Time to Change Your Workflow?

When is it Time to Change Your Workflow?

Freelance

One of the curious questions a web designer faces is when to make a change to the tools you use and the way you work. How do you know when…

A Web Designer’s Guide to Simple Solutions

A Web Designer’s Guide to Simple Solutions

Freelance

If you’ve been working as a web designer for awhile, you may find yourself in an interesting position: Resident Expert/Guru. Friends, family, colleagues and clients will ask you for advice…

Bouncing Back from Freelance Business Failure

Bouncing Back from Freelance Business Failure

Freelance

When you started off as a freelancer, did it cross your mind that you might not make it? Did you consider the possibility of failure? If you’re like many first…

simple method design skills

A Simple Method for Developing Design Skills This Year

Design / Freelance

There’s no shortcut or hidden trick to improving your design skills – ask anyone in design or any other field, creative or otherwise. But there is a simple way. It’s…

You’re Worth More Than a Page Builder

You’re Worth More Than a Page Builder

Freelance / Web Design
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