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Dealing with Terrible Business Ideas from Your Clients

Dealing with Terrible Business Ideas from Your Clients

Freelance / Web Design

Knowing how to spot a bad business idea or tell when a particular business relationship looks rickety is an important skill every designer should learn.

How to Resolve Pain Points in Your Client’s WordPress Workflow

How to Resolve Pain Points in Your Client’s WordPress Workflow

Freelance / WordPress

WordPress is powerful but not always easy for clients to use. Learn how to streamline workflows, reduce pain points, and keep websites manageable.

The Idea Generation Process of Scribbling on a Napkin

The Idea Generation Process of Scribbling on a Napkin

Design / Freelance

We explore the idea generation process familiar to many designers: the scribbled idea on a restaurant napkin process. It’s high-level stuff!

What Happened to the Great Plans For Your Design Career?

What Happened to the Great Plans For Your Design Career?

Freelance

So your great plans of achieving your design career goals are have been flushed down the drain. What happened? Is there a practical reason?

Is It Worth Having a Personal Portfolio?

Is It Worth Having a Personal Portfolio?

Design / Freelance

As information is spread so quickly through social media, are potential clients really going to take the time to visit your personal website?

How to Do Away With Bad Design Ideas & Move on to the Good Ones

How to Do Away With Bad Design Ideas & Move on to the Good Ones

Design / Freelance

There’s a common saying in the fiction-writing world: kill your darlings. No, this isn’t some morbid encouragement to do bodily harm to your loved ones. Killing your darlings means that…

How to Avoid Design by Committee

How to Avoid Design by Committee

Design / Freelance

Most people have an idea of the perfect solution to their design problem. The downside is that so does everyone else with the same problem.

How to Set Up Your WordPress Agency for Long-Term Success

How to Set Up Your WordPress Agency for Long-Term Success

Freelance / WordPress

We share some tried-and-true methods for creating and managing a WordPress agency that will help you thrive and grow in such a competitive industry.

Tips for Freelance Designers Who Work as Sub-contractors

Tips for Freelance Designers Who Work as Sub-contractors

Freelance / WordPress

Navigate the world of freelance design by learning how to effectively work as a subcontractor, enhancing your skills and network.

Why You Should Include Your Personal Passions in Your Design Work

Why You Should Include Your Personal Passions in Your Design Work

Freelance / Web Design

Including interesting side projects in your portfolio can help you make the leap from forgettable, all-purpose designer to an industry superstar.

How Teaching Will Help You Become the Best Designer You Can Be

How Teaching Will Help You Become the Best Designer You Can Be

Design / Freelance

We explore some of the key ways that sharing your knowledge will help you to become the best designer you can possibly be.

How to Find & Use Your Own Design Voice

How to Find & Use Your Own Design Voice

Design / Freelance
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