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Getting Smarter: How Changing Your Mindset Can Help Your Web Design Goals

Getting Smarter: How Changing Your Mindset Can Help Your Web Design Goals

Imagine you had a child who just finished learning addition and subtraction. You gave him a math task at home to test his skills and he solved the task successfully!…

Designers & Developers, Why Can We Not Just Get Along?

Designers & Developers, Why Can We Not Just Get Along?

Here’s a question that has been talked about many times, usually resulting in both sides coming away feeling angry and misunderstood. Why can’t developers and designers get along? Now, obviously…

Lessons Learned From an Experienced Freelancer

Lessons Learned From an Experienced Freelancer

As freelancers navigate their way into the world of contracted work, there are a variety of good times and bad times. The good times in particular involve a steady list…

The Remote Designer – Jumping into the Cloud

The Remote Designer – Jumping into the Cloud

Freelance work can be one of the most liberating work, especially when moving from agency or in-house, you will ever undertake in your career. And while it has plenty of…

Communication Tips for Techies

Communication Tips for Techies

Techies aren’t known for their outstanding communication skills – we are much better at design, code, machines in general than in communication with other humans. However, no matter if we…

10 Productivity Tips for Freelancers

10 Productivity Tips for Freelancers

As a freelancer, it matters not how much time you have spent in front of your computer but what you have completed on the project. What matters is productivity rather…

5 Things that Can Derail Your Freelance Career

5 Things that Can Derail Your Freelance Career

When you started your freelance career, you probably thought that the beginning was the most difficult. While a beginning is usually hard, what’s after isn’t necessarily any easier. There are…

Sell Your Designs – Print-on-Demand (POD) Tips and Services

Sell Your Designs – Print-on-Demand (POD) Tips and Services

Print-on-Demand (POD) is usually related to books and other written stuff but it is not limited to this. With POD, you prepare your manuscript, or design, upload it to a…

The Benefits of Teamwork in a Startup Environment

The Benefits of Teamwork in a Startup Environment

Working to build a startup from the very beginning requires dedication and seemingly endless weeks of hard work. There are very few success stories revolving around a single entrepreneur, as…

Working as a Freelancer with No Speed Limit

Working as a Freelancer with No Speed Limit

There are so many people working freelance jobs online that it’s almost become a revolution of new media. You can graduate fresh out of high school and start working on…

How Seasonal Factors Can Influence Your Business

How Seasonal Factors Can Influence Your Business

The four seasons of the year might not affect your business directly, unless you are a farmer, but more or less seasonal factors play a role for every kind of…

From Zero to Thriving Career: Getting Clients as a New Designer

From Zero to Thriving Career: Getting Clients as a New Designer