What is creativity? Do we need it as designers? Design is a lot about best practices, guidelines, and following proven patterns. At the same time, though, it’s about thinking outside of the box and reinventing the wheel at times. Without creativity, the design industry, and any industry really, would be stuck in the same place it was when it began. Creativity creates innovation.
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How to Unleash Your Inner Creativity?
How to Use LinkedIn for Your Web Design Business
Maybe you’re already one of the 85 million users on LinkedIn, or perhaps you’re just getting started. Regardless of where you fall on the social networking spectrum, LinkedIn has a number of new applications and features to enrich your experience. In this post, we’ll look at ways to beef up your profile as well as use new applications and sections to optimize your networking with clients, prospects and others in the design community. We’ll also cover how to find design-related groups on LinkedIn, exploit the new features of company pages to showcase your design work and keep up with developments on LinkedIn. Please let us know in the comments area about other ways in which you could harness the power of LinkedIn in your web design business.
How to Send Text Messages with PHP
Text messaging has become extremely widespread throughout the world — to the point where an increasing number of web applications have integrated SMS to notify users of events, sales or coupons directly through their mobile devices. In this tutorial, we will cover the fundamentals of sending text messages with PHP.
How to Do a Quality Check When Choosing Fonts
A designer has to take care of numerous things while designing a website. He has to be very careful with the choices that he makes. If you are a designer, you would be aware of the fact that concentrating on every detail i.e., minor to major is not an easy task. When we talk about a website, content is considered to be one of the integral parts of any website. Not only quality content is important, but quality of the font is equally important …
How to Be a Successful ‘Design Businessman’
Anyone who is part of the world’s rat race dreams of owning his own business. After all, working 9-5 for your entire life does not sound exciting at all. Also, being your own boss is a great thing since you do not have to report to anyone and no one is keeping a check on you and your work 24/7. So, how about you take a look at your life and see what has been achieved so far so you can decide what is next for you. For now, you have earned your degrees; you have worked really hard on your job and have mastered your field of designing. You must be thinking now what? Yes, its time to move ahead and something for yourself.
How to Boost Your Creativity in 3 (or 7) Days
All creative professionals face creative blocks. Many times these blocks are caused by being overworked and burned out on creativity. Sometimes routine helps, but it can frequently hinder the brain juices. After all, variety is the spice of life.
As a creative professional there are definitely some related fields to your profession. Being a graphic designer with a degree, I could swear that college burned out my creativity. Then I discovered that I enjoyed photography as a hobby. I also like to sit at my drafting table and sketch. Both of these hobbies are related to the field of design, and both help me get creative.
How To Make Money Blogging (Part 1)
There are a number of ways to make money from writing on the internet but the way that most people start earning from their writing is by gradually monetizing blogs that they started for fun or as a hobby. It might start out with a blog bringing in a few dollars to pay for its own hosting, or for a couple of books or a few cups of coffee per month. And it may increase gradually so that it eventually becomes enough to be equivalent to a part time job. Some blogs even end up making hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
How to get promoted to a Senior Level Designer or Creative Director
Sure the average is 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week. With that amount of effort you will probably stay stagnant and grow moldy (I’m kidding). But I bet if you ask any senior designer or art director if he/she has gotten to that career point on a measley 40 hour/week schedule, that person would laugh. If you’re not willing to dedicate extra time, don’t hold your breath on a promotion anytime soon. Even an hour or two every day will show passion for the job, commitment to deadlines, and attention to detail. And be sure to be productive in that time. Staying late doesn’t mean hard work if you’re just sitting there smiling at the ficus tree. Trust me, people will notice and your extra time will not be in vain.
How to Build a Good Working Client Relationship
Generally, there are two types of successful business ends: the first type is a one time relationship that ends after the project is finished. The second type lasts for long term and the client keeps going back to you with more projects. Both types of business relationships are successful because the project is done to the client’s satisfaction. But the second type is actually more beneficial because in addition to more revenues, you gain the client’s trust or may be a friend who can collaborate together for the success of both your businesses.
This long-term relationship between you and your client does not come just because of the success of the project although it is an important factor to achieve it. If you only concentrate your vision to this point, you may not get the desired results unless you are lucky enough.
The designer-client relationship starts even before you meet your client. We will see in this article as I will try to cover briefly the basic characteristics of the designer-client relationship and improving this relationship through its different stages.
How to Manage Your Time for Success
The ability to manage time wisely is actually a skill that we have to learn in our journey as a designer. In this post, I would like to share 7 time management tips. Personal Clock refers to individual’s time which he/she able to do certain tasks better, quicker and more efficient. For example, you may be the kind of person who is most creative in the morning, and maybe you could rather do mundane tasks in the evening or afternoon.
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