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How to Balance Client Needs vs. Your Portfolio

How to Balance Client Needs vs. Your Portfolio

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Freelance Design / Web Design

Sometimes we add bells & whistles to a web project for the wrong reasons. Sure, they can enhance our portfolios, but they may not have a positive impact elsewhere.

Why You Should Simplify Your Designs for the Smartest User

Why You Should Simplify Your Designs for the Smartest User

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Freelance Design / Web Design

We talk about simplifying your designs using the Pareto Principle to ensure that you make the best possible decisions for your clients.

How Simple, Classic Design Should Work

How Simple, Classic Design Should Work

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Design

Simplifying features and information is one of the most important steps toward creating the best user experience possible.

How a Designer Might Create Timeless Designs

How a Designer Might Create Timeless Designs

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Design

We’ve all seen examples of classic design – work that gets talked about for months, years, and even decades after it has served its initial purpose. Even people who have…

The Idea Generation Process of Scribbling on a Napkin

The Idea Generation Process of Scribbling on a Napkin

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Design

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

Avoiding Design by Committee

Avoiding Design by Committee

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Design

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.

Separating Your Personal & Commercial Design Work

Separating Your Personal & Commercial Design Work

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Freelance Design / Web Design

Is there a difference between so-called “commercial” work and work that’s done purely for the joy of creating? Should they be separated?

Taking the Occam Razor Approach to Design

Taking the Occam Razor Approach to Design

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Design

We discuss the importance of ditching the unnecessary when developing design concepts, and why it’s so hard to do in the first place.

The Personal Process of Choosing the Right Design Tool

The Personal Process of Choosing the Right Design Tool

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Design

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

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Freelance Design / 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.

Is There a Perfect Solution to a Design Problem?

Is There a Perfect Solution to a Design Problem?

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Design

You’re probably thinking of your own version of the “perfect” design. Whatever it is, you probably have fond, nostalgic feelings around it, and would likely defend its rightful place among…

Taking Trips Outside of Your Design Comfort Zone

Taking Trips Outside of Your Design Comfort Zone

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Web Design
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