Just Creative

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I’ve been a freelancer for almost three years, and based on my experience, here are the top 13 habits for becoming a more productive and efficient freelancer. Half the battle is getting out from underneath your covers and physically moving to a place that inspires creativity and production. Don’t limit this habit to workdays only.

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Documenting animals, plants, landscapes, and more, the footage is diverse in subject matter and captures visual evidence of some of the most pressing issues facing the world today. The article Open Planet Is a Growing Library of 4,500 Free Videos Documenting Nature and Climate Issues Around the World appeared first on Colossal.

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UX Collective

JULY 13, 2022

The importance of teachable interactions Inadequate consideration of how products are taught to users can result in sub-optimal product designs. The goal of such workshops is to understand the client’s perception of the users’ needs, their goals for the project, their vision for the product’s design, and their criteria for its success.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 3, 2023

Over the past year, I’ve been experimenting with how I document my reflections. If you’re like me, and your brain often feels noisy, or you find yourself hyper-fixating on topics that take you down weird and wonderful spirals, I recommend documenting where that process takes you.

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Creative Market

AUGUST 18, 2021

Product design is a complex discipline, requiring careful study and understanding of your user. We asked Creative Market’s own product minds to open up their libraries and share some of the books that have shaped their careers. Web Form Design. The Elements of Typographic Style. Just Enough Research. Lots of helpful stuff.”

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HONGKIAT

APRIL 29, 2022

That’s a good habit to have, but if we’re not careful, we can spend so much effort looking for ways to become more productive and then backfire, causing our productivity to decrease. Once you complete your design, there’s no documentation to contend with, and you don’t need to have your design OK’d by QA.

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 30, 2022

When you are responsible for producing any sort of document, you naturally want to ensure it serves its purpose and achieves its goal. It is important to realize that the design and formatting of certain documents can have a huge impact on how they are received and whether others actually read the document.

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HONGKIAT

JULY 23, 2021

Whether you call your ‘home office’ a blessing or a curse, one thing’s for sure, your mood and your productivity will be affected by how it is set up. Think your home office is a mess and is ruining your productivity? Are your documents piling up because of your prospering business? Read more.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The other half is about staying organised and productive so you can deliver everything on time and get paid promptly. Talk to a freelancer who's got that sorted, and you'll probably find they have a suite of productivity tools that help them achieve this with minimal fuss. Notes Use Apple products? It's probably a lot.

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Design Milk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Italian designer Jody Del Bianco reminisces of a time when the constant barrage of distractions delivered by notifications, texts, and emails were yet to forever change our daily lives – a time when analog devices like the typewriter permitted singularly focused expression and productivity. Oh, what a time it was!

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Inkbot Design

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

How to Build a Productive Workplace at Home The COVID-19 pandemic forced many people to quickly adapt to working from home. While remote work certainly has its perks, like avoiding a commute and having more flexibility, it can also present challenges when trying to stay focused and productive. Accessibility? Consider all factors.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In addition, if you update the brand palette, you can quickly sync all the colors in the product. Document your design decisions Documentation, in my opinion, is the cornerstone of alignment the design decisions with code. For example, you can document everything directly in Figma. Crafting Component API, Together 4.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

5 things I’ve learned in my Product Design role at lululemon?—?with However, when a Product Design opportunity at lululemon presented itself, I couldn’t resist. The chance to practice the full suite of UX design work within an in-house product team was exactly what I needed next for my career. relatively new product team c.)

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Data is a product, not a commodity. Use these heuristics to be human-centred with backend products. Not data, ‘data products’ Data products are the glue that holds everything together. As if buttons and inputs are the product and data is just a commodity. But data products haven’t caught up.

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Graphic Design Junction

APRIL 26, 2023

It ensures that the look and feel of your products are consistent, helping to create a unique and recognizable visual language for customers. By following these steps you can craft a comprehensive style guide that will ensure consistency throughout all your products. Why is it important?

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UX Collective

JANUARY 24, 2023

Many designers, myself included, are held back by a lack of the necessary knowledge and skills to build products. For those of you, I have an option that is free, doesn’t require a ton of coding knowledge, guarantees users, and you can finish your first product today. Obviously, it isn’t the only way to start building products.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Many product design activities at multiple stages often overlap and prevent us from seeing the bigger picture of our workflow. As product designers, we are always trying to improve upon our work, constantly revolving around challenging problems and the never-ending search for effective and efficient solutions.

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Creative Review

JUNE 2, 2020

“Everything was time-luxurious and counter productive. This box set contains Janine’s important work documenting the jewellery quarter, the Black Country chainmaking, potteries, coal mining, iron and steel works and the drop forge. But I never liked to exhibit the same work more than a couple of times,” says Atkinson.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We find a sense of meaning and purpose in building products that meet their needs and wants. And there’s no greater joy than seeing the same people appreciate your work and product. As we empathise with the people using our products and services, we sometimes overlook the business side of things. The bottom line is?—?concept

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UX Collective

MAY 25, 2023

Modular design is the key to creating products that are scalable, consistent, and cost-effective. By breaking down complex problems into manageable units and reusing existing solutions, you can adapt to changing needs and create products that are as flexible as a cat. One possible answer is modular design. What is Modular Design?

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Colossal

MAY 17, 2023

Interested in annual harvests of grass, water hyacinths, and other crops tended to around the country, Pham often documents farmers working in the Mekong Delta, a wet coastal region that fosters a robust aquaculture. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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UX Collective

APRIL 10, 2023

To understand this process better, I analysed the design principles of 8 products —  Asana , Atlassian , Hubspot , IBM , Slack , Etsy , Medium and Spotify. Many product design teams have well-defined principles, but I picked these for a few reasons. A majority of them have open documentation of the creation process.

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UX Collective

JULY 24, 2023

Think inside the box: How accessibility shapes digital product design How constraints ignite creativity, spark innovation, and why accessibility is a uniquely effective constraint everyone should embrace. Let’s see how!

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Design Beep

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Looking for Product design tools to boost your designing process? Here we will discuss the best 15 Product design tools. But before we head forward to the list, let’s get to know about product design first. What Is Product Designing? Well, using product design tools here can actually help you. But how exactly?

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Everything from daily walks to games of tug and war is documented in the illustration series, as well as how she stares at him while eating and patiently waits for him to go to the bathroom. "I I wish I could document more of the details and feelings of my life with her; they are cosy and gently wrapped up." And for the Hey!

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Just Creative

MARCH 26, 2023

This software is for copy and column writers who enhance the design aspect of the document. InCopy helps present attractive documents by collaborating with Adobe InDesign. InCopy the design and the layout of the document. Since all these products are interlinked, it is better to go in for the Adobe All Apps plan.

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UX Collective

JULY 31, 2021

In addition, of course, let’s not forget the fact this often means that we don’t deliver products as we originally anticipated. Disclaimer: As the topic itself could have several different interpretations, I reserve the right to only present the experiences and findings that have impacted on products and services I’ve delivered with my teams.

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UX Collective

JUNE 15, 2023

Evaluating the performance of a product designer within a startup or agency environment is challenging. Traditional teams (like those you’d find in a startup or agency, including product, sales, marketing, customer support, and engineering) have the luxury of being able to measure quantifiable metrics to assess individual performance.

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Spoon Graphics

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Find a range of premium design resource products, such as fonts, graphics, mock-ups, photos and textures with big discounts and extended licensing. PNG images are widely supported, however the premade scenes are dedicated Photoshop documents that allow you to edit the text and layout. Find out more about Dealjumbo.

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Colossal

APRIL 12, 2024

The Salas y Gómez Ridge is one of the most biologically productive regions in the world, and thanks to researchers with the Schmidt Ocean Institute , we now know more about the life that thrives there. Image by ROV SuBastian Detail of a sponge documented at 1238.67 meters depth at Seamout 10, also known as Guyot Baral.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

That’s why, when I arrived at OpenClassrooms in March 2020 , one of my first missions was to design my team’s skill grids: one for Product Designers, one for Ux Writers and more recently, one for User Researchers. That’s why, when we open a new squad, we run a workshop with Product Managers and Product Owners to map the main skills needed.

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Colossal

MARCH 25, 2022

In The Greenhouse Series II , Hegen captures the abstract topographies of the world’s largest agricultural production center of its kind, which stretches across 360-square kilometers of rugged, mountainous terrain in the southern part of the country. “Groundwater is being polluted with fertilisers and pesticides.

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UX Collective

MAY 21, 2021

For a long time, businesses and admittedly designers, have focused on Human-Centered Design, which was a great step towards creating better products, but unfortunately failed to address the ecosystem those humans are a part of. Automation in Design We already find that there are established UX patterns that have been documented.

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Inkbot Design

MAY 4, 2022

20 Tips for Increasing Your Productivity When Freelancing. Whether you’re self-employed or a freelancer, productivity is one of the most important metrics by which you measure business success. This article will go over 20 tips to help you increase your productivity when freelancing. 1 – Take Notes During Meetings.

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Noupe

MAY 13, 2020

Most small businesses can’t afford to throw money at productivity problems. The best way to improve productivity is to develop and implement small, consistent improvements which make your employees and processes more efficient. Workplace productivity is affected by a variety of factors. Besides, this doesn’t actually work.

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Just Creative

MAY 7, 2020

Makes restoring older versions of copy and design documents easy. In the GoCopy workflow, designers assign text frames on their InDesign document to copywriters, using the Adobe Creative Cloud extension. No cut and paste from Word documents, emails or anything else. It’s so easy to pass documents around and get content placed.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In-file, UX documentation is a layer of information that isn’t part of the design itself but helps everyone to understand it better. The benefits of great UX documentation are too good to ignore It provides “ Organizational memory ”. You shouldn’t spend your time writing a long and boring document nobody will have the patience to read.

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