The 7 Heavenly Virtues of Design
No one intends for their business to stagnate. In an attempt to advance their freelance work, many people turn to…
How to Deal With Nightmare Clients
Regardless of how smoothly your business may operate, no one is completely immune to criticism and controversy. With BP’s disastrous…
Charging Per Hour vs. Per Project
If you’re a corporate designer, you don’t have to worry about things like how to bill your clients, as you’re…
15 Bad Habits That Could Kill Your Design Career
Being a designer has never been easy. Working with clients, creative directors, marketing managers and other designers can take a…
10 Ecommerce Design Tips for Increasing Conversions
Sometimes, web stores get too artsy with their designs. Some use flash animations that can slow down the shopper’s browser,…
Working For A Web Design Agency
The most obvious job for a web designer is working for a web design agency, but if you’ve never done…
7 Personality Types of Clients Today
In previous articles, we discussed seven types of designers and seven types of developers. Designers and developers form two parts…
6 Tips for Pitching to Major Clients
Almost every major web designer faces this dilemma at some point: either continue working with “mom-and-pop” style businesses, enjoying effortless…
How to Overcome 20 Reasons Not to Become a Freelancer
We recently published an article covering 20 reasons not to become a freelancer. The idea was that there are already…
Setting Up the Optimal Work Environment
How much time do you waste on the average day looking for things buried somewhere on your desk? Or getting…
The Ups and Downs of Being a Perfectionist
Almost everyone out there knows someone who’s a perfectionist, if they aren’t one themselves. Some people are perfectionists in only…
How to Scan, Absorb and Process Information
Learning new information quickly is very important to both designers and developers. That being said, regardless of your profession and…
Why Designers Shouldn’t Settle
Ugly designs abound on the web, and behind each and every one of them is a “designer”. In many of…
Using a Pre-Launch Checklist for your Website
Accounting for every aspect of a new website isn’t easy, especially at the last minute. The problems aren’t the details…
How to Deal with Feature Creep
If any assumption is safe, it’s that six months after launching a website (or sooner?), its owners will have a…