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design practice

When It’s Time To Let Go

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Being effective involves doing the right thing at the right time in the right place.

Green Scheduling: 6 Tips for Sustaining Your Creative Time

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Design your time. Time is wasted when we do the wrong thing at the wrong time. It’s easier to keep your time boundaries and your well-being intact if you plan ahead.

The Need For Selflessness

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If we approach a design solution as an opportunity for self-expression, we’ll miss the point and risk not solving the problem.

One Dozen Rules For Your Freelance Design Practice

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Setting and maintaining boundaries will help you avoid relationships and circumstances that are potentially harmful.

The Internship Epidemic

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It is the responsibility of design professionals, teachers and school administrators to value the next generation of designers so that the profession is respected, appreciated and thrives. Unpaid internships won’t accomplish that.

Don’t Design For The Client

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Design for the audience and not the client.

Email Scam Targets Web Designers

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It appears that scammers are targeting freelance web designers. Here’s the scenario: I received an inquiry via email regarding web site design services. The sender claimed to be located in London and was opening a small business. He (gender is assumed) asked the cost of designing a simple 2-page web site and included a link [...]

From the Client’s Point of View

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From the client’s point of view, there are two crucial criteria in deciding what designer is awarded the project: 1. Does the creative understand what’s needed? 2. Is the creative capable of delivering? Understanding What’s Needed Defining the problem accurately is necessary to solving it. If a designer can do that, he in essence has [...]