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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

3 skills that will get you ahead ~90% of Designers in 2023

3 skills that will get you ahead ~90% of Designers in 2023

Technical skills will get you so far in Design. You need to focus on soft skills such as Communication, Time Management if you want to grow and stand out.

"Thank You" letter to Designers for 2022

"Thank You" letter to Designers for 2022

Dear Designer, You have done an amazing job this year! Maybe you didn’t achieve everything you wanted. Go easy on yourself. Design is hard! You are expected to touch everything from stating business problems to communicating your solutions to developers, stakeholders. You work hard on making sense of data

Design Process is Messy! as it should be.

Design Process is Messy! as it should be.

Meticulously structured design courses are valuable. Study them, learn them, but if you ever get overwhelmed (and you will), bear in mind that the real work environments are not that strict, you will have room to break the rules you learned, explore and make your own rules.

Video Gamer skills that make a Great Designer

Video Gamer skills that make a Great Designer

Enjoy your time with video games, do not see it as a waste of time as society thinks. This is YOUR time, use it as you like it. It will make you a better designer.

There are no small design projects

There are no small design projects

Treat every design project as an opportunity to improve and show your craft, creativity, attention to detail, not as a paycheck. Especially if you are a young designer.

5+ Benefits of Creative Constraints (Restrictions) in Design

5+ Benefits of Creative Constraints (Restrictions) in Design

Constraints are your clues to a good, accessible, consistent design. Use them for your strength and do your best to express your creativity within these lines. There is so much you can use your Creativity to contribute to your clients' businesses and users' life.