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Spark your creativity with innovative design ideas. Inspiration and tips for pushing the boundaries of your creative work.

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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…

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!

Design Ideas is All About Presentation

Design Ideas is All About Presentation

Design / Freelance

A good design presentation will encourage clients and colleagues to take your ideas more seriously and assign more value to them.

How to Get Those Creative Juices Flowing Again

How to Get Those Creative Juices Flowing Again

Design / Freelance

We explore some effective ways to get those creative juices flowing so that you can get back in the flow and continue to wow your clients.

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.

Stop Worrying About People Stealing Your Ideas

Stop Worrying About People Stealing Your Ideas

Design / Freelance

We explore some important reasons why you should stop worrying about anyone potentially stealing your creative design ideas.

How to Let Go of That Failing Creative Idea

How to Let Go of That Failing Creative Idea

Design / Freelance

To help you not quit working on that creative idea, we explore some methods that you can use to finish every design project you start.

What To Do With All Those Spare Creative Ideas

What To Do With All Those Spare Creative Ideas

Design / Freelance

There are many ways you can deal with all those spare creative ideas. Here are some suggestions on what you can do with them.

How to Help Clients Round Out Their Ideas

How to Help Clients Round Out Their Ideas

Freelance

Those first conversations between the client and designer are pivotal. This is where you’ll gain an understanding of a client’s thought process.

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…

7 Ways to Come up with Creative Ideas, Backed by Psychology

7 Ways to Come up with Creative Ideas, Backed by Psychology

Design / Freelance

They’re the kinds of problems you can’t seem to think your way out of. Whether it’s a unique layout for your site, a concept for a blog post, or an…

Common Mistakes When Presenting Design Ideas to Clients, and How to Avoid Them

Common Mistakes When Presenting Design Ideas to Clients, and How to Avoid Them

Web Design