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Navigate the creative process in design. Insights into cultivating creativity and turning ideas into reality.

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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!

The Personal Process of Choosing the Right Design Tool

The Personal Process of Choosing the Right Design Tool

Design / Freelance

Tips on how the tools you use as a designer can help improve your creative process and aid you in creating work you can stand behind.

Those Things You Must Do When Ending a Freelance Design Project

Those Things You Must Do When Ending a Freelance Design Project

Freelance / Web Design

There are important things you should do when ending a freelance project, and today we go over what they are and why you should do them.

Fun Ways to Help You Rediscover the Joys of Web Design

Fun Ways to Help You Rediscover the Joys of Web Design

Web Design

Life as a web designer can get incredibly busy. So much so that you may find yourself dedicating loads of time to your clients and having very little left for…

How to Find Flow in Your Creative Process

How to Find Flow in Your Creative Process

Freelance

As there are no sure-fire ways to make your brain productive or creative, we share tips for encouraging your mind to enter a state of flow.

The Web Design Process Periodic Table [Infographic]

The Web Design Process Periodic Table [Infographic]

UI Design / Web Design

How many times have you had to placate your clients because they want to see their website live, and they want it NOW? Unfortunately too many of us have had…

Does the Computer Negatively Impact the Creative Process?

Does the Computer Negatively Impact the Creative Process?

Design / Freelance

Examining how computers might negatively impact the creative process and ways to counteract this effect.

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…

When Illustrations Matter to the Design Process

When Illustrations Matter to the Design Process

UX Design

Lately I have found myself focusing more and more on an illustrative approach when I think about how to develop the true identity of a product. I’ve found it a…

The Guide To UX Design Process & Documentation

The Guide To UX Design Process & Documentation

UX Design