web design mistakes

Are You Making These 5 Web Design Mistakes?

As a web designer, you have to create magic. On numerous occasions, you’re required to take a staggeringly complex process and make it simple, easy and wonderful.

Building a site can overwhelm you yet the genuine test lies in making it usable. One of the common issues that most website designers have is they are building for themselves and not for users. They prefer creativity over usability.

Web designers tend to be perfectionists by nature. Sometimes we are our own worst critic. We take our mistakes personally.

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Web Designer Movies

7 Great Movies for Web Designers

1. Objectified 

Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity put into work to build everyday objects like toothbrushes or tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability.

Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential product designers and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?

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Freelancer tips & tricks

22 Tips & Tricks for Freelancers

1. Be amazing at something

Most masters think that it takes at least 10,000 hours or more to be an expert at something, and even longer to be the BEST. I believe this depends on the learning skills and the abilities one has, as well as some other factors. It also depends on the fact that each person is different. It may be possible to master something within a few years if you have the abilities, but the most persistent people will keep going for 10 years and will always try to be the best.

Don’t try to attain perfection or be the “best”, but try to learn to excel or master your craft, and success will come on its own. You are still learning, to this day, and you will still be learning for the rest of your life.

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