Learning to say NO (to bad freelance projects)

The word “NO” may be one of those forbidden words in the vocabulary of most freelance designers.  We may be used to hearing it from time to time from prospective clients or recruiters, but actually saying “no” to someone is something we seldom do.  Why is that? For...
New Years Resolutions of a Designer

New Years Resolutions of a Designer

We’ve all been there.  Ball drops in Time Square, and a few hours later we’re promising to change certain parts of our lives.  Well as a designer, we have new years ambitions too. I’ve comprised a short list of some key ones we should all take a bit...

Growing: As a designer

There is something to be said about the designers that have been around for more than 10 years.  They’ve been through the dot com burst and the bust, but a lot of them are still around to this day.  Still creating new user experiences great cutting edge designs to...

Key flags to avoid when setting up your website

These days creating a website is cheap and fast. The learning curve has also been sharply reduced. But most of these advancements are due to software that takes the technicality out of the true form. What I’ve highlighted below are some flags or concerns that you...