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Oykun Yilmaz

Oykun Yilmaz

Writing Articles on Design, Art, Psychology and more for Designers

Tackling FOMO-driven social media struggle with your new Designer Mindset

Tackling FOMO-driven social media struggle with your new Designer Mindset

You are a designer, working on your full-time job or your freelance projects. You go online Open X app You see 1. John released his Framer template 2. Fatma launches her “How To Make $100k As A Designer” course 3. Gary starts his subscription model design service 4. Laila is

Hustle Culture for Designers

Hustle Culture for Designers

We all have our aspirations and goals in life and career. For me, it goes from having an impact on my full-time work to helping designers via my blog, email newsletter, and other educational content. I need to work damn hard to achieve these goals! Making the most of every

Why Visual Design Matters

Why Visual Design Matters

Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX, Development, and so on. I have faced situations like: Devs have already started the development based on UX. Just spend a few hours adding colours, please. We do not need visual design. Our devs are

Communicate Value over Long Hours of Work as a Designer

Communicate Value over Long Hours of Work as a Designer

The tagline for my newsletter goes as below: Grow As Designer | Helping Designers Grow Their Value and Income. It's a bit unclear, right? What the heck is "Value" anyway? How can you grow it? Well, there are many meanings to it and ways to grow it for a designer, but

1 Simple Approach to Discover Your Design Career Path

1 Simple Approach to Discover Your Design Career Path

As designers, we can sometimes feel lost in our design career and it applies to all of us from Junior to Senior levels. We either have no idea where we are going or get lazy and lost in our comfort zone. If I've based the advice purely on my self-experience,

The Almanac of Naval Ravikant

The Almanac of Naval Ravikant

My recommendation: MUST READ More details and reviews on Amazon This book took its place in my annual re-reading list. Lots of common sense practices in this book. I especially liked how Naval emphasises the importance of being a perpetual learner and reader which I greatly value too. I also

Design Your Way to Success: How task management can boost your career as a Designer

Design Your Way to Success: How task management can boost your career as a Designer

As designers, our days are filled with a variety of tasks and responsibilities. Here is a likely scenario; You wake up, go through your morning routine, and sit down at your desk to start working. First, you see a flood of emails in your inbox. You start replying to them