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Freelance

Our authors, freelance designers like you, share their extensive knowledge and experiences. You’ll learn how to get consistent work, manage your time, business and clients, and, most importantly, how to get paid better, and on time.

Will Replacing Creative Professionals with AI Backfire?

Will Replacing Creative Professionals with AI Backfire?

AI could impact all creative professionals in one way or another. Web designers, developers, and graphic artists are among them.

How Online Privacy Is Impacting Web Designers

How Online Privacy Is Impacting Web Designers

Explore the impact of online privacy on web design, emphasizing the importance for designers to adapt to new standards.

The Grumpy Designer Meets the Outside World (Again)

The Grumpy Designer Meets the Outside World (Again)

Join the Grumpy Designer as they venture outside, offering a humorous take on the world beyond the screen.

Want to Succeed as a Freelancer? It’s about Time

Want to Succeed as a Freelancer? It’s about Time

Discover key practices to thrive as a freelancer, balancing time and resources for a successful career.

AI Presents Many Challenges for Web Designers

AI Presents Many Challenges for Web Designers

We discuss the key challenges in incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into their design process and its impact on design trends and UX.

The Bright Side of an Increasingly Homogeneous Web

The Bright Side of an Increasingly Homogeneous Web

We discuss the positive effects of a more consolidated web and examine what this means for the web design community as a whole.

A Web Designer’s Education Never Stops

A Web Designer’s Education Never Stops

One of the unique parts of being a web designer is that the job never stops evolving. From static HTML all the way to Content Management Systems – the way…

Things I’ve Learned From the WordPress Community

Things I’ve Learned From the WordPress Community

We share a few valuable lessons we’ve learned from the WordPress community. Some may sound basic, but they’ve impacted both our careers and life.

How Security Is Driving up the Cost of Website Maintenance

How Security Is Driving up the Cost of Website Maintenance

Security’s impact on website maintenance demands its inclusion in our pricing. We examine the challenges and the resulting surge in costs.

How to Deal with Uncertain Times as a Web Designer

How to Deal with Uncertain Times as a Web Designer

If recent global events have taught us anything, it’s that life as we know it can change in an instant. The things that once seemed certain and knowable become anything…

How Web Designers Are Adapting to Industry Changes

How Web Designers Are Adapting to Industry Changes

In my thoroughly unscientific observation, web designers appear to be frustrated with the state of things. We take a look at why that is.

Why You Should Conduct Annual Website Audits

Why You Should Conduct Annual Website Audits