10 Practical Ways to Bust Through Web Designer’s Block
As a web designer, is there any feeling worse than being creatively uninspired and not being able to complete or start your design projects? It’s frustrating, depressing, and costs us income.
Now imagine if there was a magical, surefire technique to make our creative block instantly disappear, giving us instant creativity and productivity.
Is Being Permanently Connected to Social Networks Good?
The introduction of Facebook, Twitter and the like has opened up a whole new world of social interaction and distraction. Suddenly, we can be connected to friends, family and colleagues with the click of a button. Instantly, we can discover what our friend had for dinner or whether their day was a good one or a bad one. Social networking has transformed the way we communicate; there is no denying we live in a permanently connected world.
Offbeat Tips for Being More Productive and Efficient at Work
Productivity and efficiency are important to our work life. We want to be able to produce things well in as little time as possible. We also want to reduce things that detract us from reaching a task’s completion. We need to try to avoid making mistakes, reduce our stress sources and, in general, manage our contentment in order to maintain our ability to get stuff done well and on time.
This article discusses a handful of interesting ideas for improving productivity and efficiency.
How to Set Up an Effective Mobile Office
Have you ever wanted to get your work done while overlooking a beautiful park, a breathtaking sunset, the calming sea, sitting in an aromatic cafe, or simply while on the train but going to somewhere you actually want to go (i.e. not to the office)?
It’s possible if you set up an effective mobile office.
9 Productivity Techniques for Freelancers
Few freelancers work according to the standard eight-hour daily schedule. With remote working opportunities available to almost every designer and home-based offices now a common occurrence, it’s even more difficult to find a designer working to the traditional work schedule than it is to find one enjoying a work style that’s based on nothing more than their own preferences.
Experts call it the blurring of work and life, claiming that technology is responsible for integrating work so firmly in our time.
10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Be a Designer
Did you know that becoming a designer is relatively easy? You go to school (some people even skip that part), you interview for a job or start your own freelancing business, and then you start getting paid in exchange for making stuff look cool.
That’s about it.
Or is it?
Destroying Designer’s Creative Block and Unleashing Your Creativity
Designing has always been hard for me. I recall back when I was still in school, I learned to design a poster for a carnival and I had a small sketchbook to draft out ideas that came to me.
In the end, I did not run out of pages to draw on. In fact, I didn’t even finishing drawing on a single page.
Trying to create an original design is not always easy. The flow of ideas can start off slow for most people. But I’ve found that there are some things that have helped me get over creative block, and I want to share them with you here.
