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How to set boundaries and stick to them, to protect your time and energy

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock As creatives, we all know boundaries matter. So why do we so often let others plunder them mercilessly? My hours of business, when people are supposed to receive updates, and so on. But enforcing them is a different story. Here's how to go about it. In truth, it's because we're people-pleasers.

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How to pivot your freelance creative business in 2023

Creative Boom

We explain how to shift your work and clients in a new direction and give yourself the dream life and career you always hoped for. A pivot is a tried-and-tested strategy whereby you take a business that just isn't working and turn it in a completely different direction. Then it's time to pivot. In which case, maybe it's time to pivot.

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“The Supposed To Life”: Why Strategy Matters

Purple Rose Graphics

This article is half mindset work and half practical advice and relates to life just as much as it does your business. The number one thing that I hear from prospective clients when I ask them “so what is your goal for this design” is usually something along the lines of “Well…I’m supposed to have this!”

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The best 2021 podcasts to level up your design game (and your personal life)

UX Collective

How To Be Receptive To Design Feedback Maybe You’re Supposed To Be a UX Researcher3 Listen to UI Narrative podcast on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , or Stitcher. ??? In this podcast, “you’ll discover how-to’s, but much more importantly, you’ll discover why-to’s,” which are the most important thing to learn to become a better UX Designer.

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5 Best Web Design Agencies To Hire In 2022

HONGKIAT

Here are the world’s top five web design agencies ranked based across the US and Europe that will do an excellent job designing and building your online web presence from scratch – no matter what industry you’re in. Founded in 2009, Clay Global is a top web design agency and branding firm based in San Francisco. EY Doberman.

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Liquid glass, fragile UX, and why I wanted 2 weeks before writing about it

UX Collective

But before we dive into details, let’s settle the matter of visual associations once and for all. Image source: Apple.com / WWDC 2025 presentation Apple made its boldest UI move since iOS 7 (presented in 2013), when the company abandoned skeuomorphism and buried textures in favor of flat design. Years have passed.

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Inclusion first: How to make your product accessible and inclusive

UX Collective

This guide will help you take the next step no matter where you are on the journey. Why is it important? Why is it important? Do you want your product to be more accessible and inclusive but aren’t sure where to start? Illustration of colorful flowers? progressively more diverse from left to right?—?by