5 Tips for Working with Clients When You’re at Home
For those of you working from home right now (willingly or unwillingly), you can’t allow your surroundings to have an…
The Latest Research for Web Designers, April 2020
In today’s roundup of the latest research for web designers, we’re going to look at a variety of topics, from…
Can Web Designers Save the World?
I know this might seem like an odd question to ask. After all, it’s not like we’re living in a…
How to Manage Your Freelance Finances During a Crisis
Have you ever heard of disaster recovery and business continuity? Basically, they’re processes that enable businesses to survive a crisis…
7 Deadly Graphic Designer Sins (And 4 Ways to Atone)
As a designer, you’ve probably wished you could know exactly what your clients were thinking at one point or another….
5 Biggest Non-Design Skills Designers Need in the 2020s
Whenever a company posts a job opening for a web design employee or freelancer, they typically include a set of…
How to Deal with Confrontational Feedback
Sadly, some clients can be just as sensitive, and triggered as online trolls; You recommend an update to a logo…
How to Keep Designing When Tragedy Strikes
If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all! We all have personal tragedies. Sometimes those tragedies…
How Many Types of X Acronym Are There? And Does It Matter?
One of the problems with coining a term like “user experience” or its acronym counterpart “UX” is that it opens…
Design from the Beach: How to Work and Travel
Are you experiencing full wanderlust with a side order of burnout in the first week of the new year? Has…
The Art of Persuasion: How to Handle Clients With Mad Ideas
We’ve all been there. It’s 4pm on a Friday afternoon, you’re already in your “weekend outfit” (underwear and hoody combo)…
Forget Trick or Treat, Here are 5 Horrifying Technologies that Should Really Scare You!
You know, I remember the good old days when all you had to worry about at Halloween was how to…
Dark Mode Looks Good, But Is It Actually Hurting You?
Over the last few years, everyone’s been talking about Dark Mode. It’s said to boost productivity and focus while reducing…
5 Unexpected UX Design Skills to Help You Level Up
Whenever a hiring boom like this happens, you have to consider how it could work against you. Sure, there are…
Are You Too Old to be a Web Designer?
There’s nothing nice about asking the question “How old is too old to …?” So, I’m going to start by…
In Defence of Hacking
Someone defaced your website, posted a rude or lewd image, and called you the adult equivalent of a doodyhead? Ah…
Are Design Pitches Worthwhile?
For most designers – freelance or in-house – generating new business can be a dreaded part of the job. But…
8 Ways to Keep Your Startup Positively Aligned
When companies become misaligned, different departments may be working toward entirely different goals – in some cases, these goals may…