Posts by Arfa Mirza

It is pretty self-explanatory when you say that a customized web design is worth it as it is always better to be original. If you are deciding between whether to get a website design for your website from the templates or to have a custom one, you only need to keep in mind that your aim is to make your website stand out from the rest. And you can achieve that only if your website design is original. Just for the sake of cutting corners, you tend to use templates and then what happens is, your website looks like so many other on the internet and it has no uniqueness and is not memorable. That would be a like a fashion faux pas of the digital world.

For a freelance designer like yourself, it is really important that you know how to write and proposal and write it effectively for that matter. If you can draft an impressive proposal, you are fulfilling an essential part of the freelance business where you can not only stay busy but also make money. The best strategy of writing the proposal is to break down it into parts as that will have more chances for the client to give you the work. Let us discuss how to write winning design proposal, when a potential client approaches you to see if you can handle their projects.

Apple is the poster child of design that everyone looks up to. Some have even gone as far as saying that Apple is popular more because of its design than the excellence of its products. But it’s not the hardware alone that the brilliance of Apple is limited to, in fact, it covers all aspects of business imaginable. Apple is a complete package with amazing hardware, excellent software, flourishing stores and a strategic point of sale and all these factors combined make its products irresistible. Our article of today has brought to you the strategies that Apple employ in its design that makes it so successful. This brief discussion will let you know all that you need to about these masterful tactics of Apple’s Successful Design Strategy.

Trying to get exposure to their work is the most challenging situation that freelancers or fresh design graduates face. This exposure is needed to land on a good design job and especially to get the attraction of the clients and to make their brand name recognized in the industry.

There are so many talented designers out there and competing with a new brand name with them is no short of a big challenge. In such a case, getting exposure can be a daunting task. Our article today aims at letting these budding designers know of some of the best known practical ways which they can use to gain exposure. Even implementing a few of these ideas can take you on the road where you can build a name for yourself, land on your desired job or attract the clients.

It’s a big challenge when you set out working as designers either in a design agency or as a freelancer. Making the most of your time efficiently is the main requirement to be successful in design business but it becomes hectic when one person has too many roles to look after for example a freelancer. A common way to deal with such a difficulty is to outsource your work. The work can be of any type, development, marketing or the design work itself.

Even if you are a very talented designer, the transition from being an employed designer to a freelancer can be very intimidating as there is a lot that a designer need to have in order to be a successful freelancer. When you are employed, you only have to take care of your work whereas it’s different for a freelancer. A freelancer has to take care of all the aspects of business himself, from communicating with client, settling the terms, do the work and handle the finances. And it is the aspects apart from work that makes freelance designing the most challenging. This transition can be made easy if you learn how to do it properly and look at the mistakes made by newbie freelancers.

It is a thing of creative people that they are more of a free-thinking sort than the structured ones. According to researches, people like designer and creative have a more actively functioning right brain than left brain thinking people and so they respond in the same manner and not logic-oriented and organized like left-brain thinkers. That might not be a problem for you but it can sometimes land you in a pretty sticky situation but there are only a few tweaks that you need to know and then you will be sending out impressive messages, easily comprehensible by everyone.

We have all been there, we have all done that! An unsuccessful assignment and a failed project – every web designer and developer have experienced this at one point in their career or the other. For such projects that you would rather forget, there actually can be a lot of good that you can take out of it. If you think it’s only you that can have a failed design business, you might want to look around at some big companies like GAP who changed their logo and reversed it several years later. That was certainly a design idea gone wrong.

One of the major reasons behind designers getting into freelance design business is their passion for work and love for creativity. Since designers are more focused towards their creative side, they tend to ignore business-related details and their importance. It is commonly said that one should learn from someone else’s mistake but in such cases, unfortunately, mostly designers learn from their own mistakes. It is very important for every freelancer to learn and understand certain aspects of running a freelance business. Focusing just on creativity will make you and your business, suffer.

Just because you started off all by yourself does not mean that you will have to work on your own forever. Even if you have been working as a freelancer, there will be times when you will have to get help from others in order to meet deadlines. If you are an owner of a small or big design business, you will obviously have to expand your team with the passage of time. There is no need to push yourself really hard into running a one-man show and doing everything on your own. Taking help is always good because if you do not meet deadlines you will end up losing clients. Let us take a look at a few symptoms that would indicate the need to have a team in your design business.

In old times due to less exposure, there was less guidance available for anyone who was about to become a part of rat race. Finding a job as a fresh graduate is really difficult but settling in on that new job is even more difficult. When I started my first job, I was totally unaware of workplace rules and regulations and unfortunately, there was no one to guide me through the whole procedure. We do see a lot of articles over the internet on finding a new job in Design Industry’s but no one is making an effort to guide newbies to adjust in successfully.

Interestingly, minimalism is derived from excess. When you realize that more is not always the best option, you tend to move towards minimal web design. When you come to know that the work you are aiming at can be done with less stuff too, you remove the elements that are unnecessary and stick to only the ones that can convey your message in the shortest of ways.

A logo is something which portrays the image of a company so it should be something which gives a perfect picture of its working. Before you set off Logo Design, you should consider gathering all the necessary details and information about the job at hand. There are different names that are given to this task; some call it discovery process, creative interview or introduction meeting but the most appropriate name for this is creative brief. It depends on what you like to call it but you have to make sure that you do it before getting on with designing.