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The Art of Saying “No”
For the most part, working in the design and development communities can often leave you feeling like somewhat of a ‘Yes’ person. That person who stands behind the client, nodding in ...
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Remarkable Résumé Designs
When applying for a job, a designer’s résumé is of utmost importance. This is precisely what should be attention-grabbing and creatively designed. This portrays the level of ...
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Educational Resources for Studying Graphic Design
One of the greatest things about having access to the Internet, is the educational opportunities that it affords the public. People in all professions have the ability to expand their ...
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There is no ‘I’ in Team: The Basics of Teamwork
In the expansive and dynamic field of web design and development, there are often times when we find ourselves working as part of a team, rather than on a more isolated, lone wolf kind ...
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Freelancing Tools: Key Ideas to Better Time Management
The modern freelancer has a platter of tasks and responsibilities dumped onto their head every day. The masses assume the work-from-home lifestyle to be a refreshing break from the ...
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Tips for Fighting Freelance Burnout
Freelancers are somewhat of a singular breed according to some of the outside perceptions held about us. We hear it all the time from friends and family, even at times from near ...
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Improving Client Relations and Enhancing the Work Process
It happens. You finish what you believe to be a remarkable design, pack it up, and send it off to the client. You are entirely pleased with the job you have done. The client, however, ...
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What is the worst mistake you see other designers make all the time?
We recently published a post was aimed at learning from the mistakes of others, and we turned to our friends and followers online and asked them to come clean about the biggest mistake ...
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Calculating the Return On Investment (ROI) on Marketing Your Design Skills
By Thursday Bram If you want to make a living as a web designer, there’s no option but to market your services. As much as you might hope clients will drop out of the sky, you ...
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The Perfect Brainstorm: A How To
Given our fields of interest and chosen professions, most of us have at least once in our lives had to brainstorm for one reason or another. But for those of us who apply this mental ...
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Some Reasons You Might Not Want To Become A Web Designer
Web design is often an appealing career choice for artistic and creative people. It's seen as a potentially lucrative opportunity to be creative on a daily basis. But there are ...
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Tips for More Effective Business Meetings
Whether we like it or not, most of our professional lives are going to have their fair share of time spent in meetings. Be it with our coworkers or clients, a measurable fraction of ...
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Freelancers Leaving the Comfort Zone
You've spent years honing your design skills in that corporate cubicle you've been living in, hoping for the day when you would finally make the jump to full time freelance. ...
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When Designers And Developers Work Together
Even in today’s fluctuating job market, one rule that still remains constant and true is to always play to your strengths. Part of this comes from having a complete and firm grasp of ...
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Successful Freelancing for Web Designers: Buy our new eBook Now!
It's time for something completely different. We have not published our own books at Noupe yet, but we did publish a couple over there at Smashing Magazine. Recently, we launched an ...
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A Designer’s Guide To Effective Proposals And Invoices
Because of the potential for variations in the different aspects of a web design project, creating a proposal or invoice for such a project can be trickier than that of another ...