I bet that a lot of designers who run their own businesses, like me, don’t actually spend a lot of time designing. Most of my day gets divided up into tasks that are decidedly not very “creative”, like administrative tasks, communication, planning, marketing, small touch ups, coding, etc. etc.
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Do you need a website, but don’t know where to start? The very first thing you need to do is sit down and come up with a basic site plan. Deciding on the type of project and it’s initial specifications will help you pick and start a working relationship with a suitable designer.
It seems there is a lot of debate lately about whether or not crowdsourcing is evil. New sites are popping up like crowdSPRING and 99designs which allow several designers to compete on the same project and only one gets rewarded a usually small fee.
I hadn’t be as excited to get something in the mail in a long time as I was when Personal Development for Smart People by Steve Pavlina came. I have been reading Steve Pavlina’s blog for a few years now and I knew this book had to be pretty special.
Koldo and I have talked extensively about why things just don’t feel right with the world these last few years. What happened to people’s sense of community? And does it feel lately like each person is their own island? Some days that best thing that happens to me is a nice friendly smile. True, things have to do a lot with your own perspective, but doesn’t it feel like things have changed?
