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2 Sep
Working For A Web Design Agency
Business, Clients, Web Design
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The most obvious job for a web designer is working for a web design agency, but if you’ve never done that before… then how do you know what to expect? Is it even the right path for you?
Setting foot in an agency for the first time can be daunting. It’s filled with people who have probably worked in the industry longer than you and who probably know a lot more than you.
Perhaps you’ve just finished a degree and you’re looking for a first job, or maybe you’re about to go back to office life after a few years of freelancing under your belt.
Either way, today we’re going to look at the ins and outs of agency life and what you can expect from it.
We’ll also be asking other people in the industry for their experiences to get a broad overview of the entire subject.
Read more
13 Jul
7 Personality Types of Clients Today
Business, Clients, Freelancing
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In previous articles, we discussed seven types of designers and seven types of developers.
Designers and developers form two parts of the design trinity: the client completes it. You can have the technology to build something and the design to make it magnificent, but if someone doesn’t fund the project, it usually falls flat.
No one has the time to do such a thing for fun. Designers and developers need clients to build their portfolio, sustain their lifestyle and grow and learn.
Not all clients are difficult, so we’ll try not to stereotype. But in all honesty, the perfect client needs no introduction or description. The perfect client is rare, though not extinct.
Today’s article focuses on seven types of clients who aren’t so perfect. You can decide for yourself which of them are the lesser evils. Read more
29 Jun
6 Tips for Pitching to Major Clients
Business, Clients, Freelancing
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Almost every major web designer faces this dilemma at some point: either continue working with “mom-and-pop” style businesses, enjoying effortless marketing and relatively simple projects, or transition to working with larger businesses and reap the benefits of bigger budgets.
It’s a question of experience, and with enough design work under your belt, new opportunities start to present themselves.
The most difficult part for many is making the transition. The comfort of simple work and the ease of marketing yourself can make maintaining a small client network very tempting.
You see the effort involved in pitching to a major client and you slightly recoil, worried that you’re not quite skilled enough, you’re not quite experienced enough and your business is not quite big enough. Read more
6 Apr
The Ups and Downs of Being a Perfectionist
Business, Clients, Productivity
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Almost everyone out there knows someone who’s a perfectionist, if they aren’t one themselves.
Some people are perfectionists in only one aspect of their life (such as school or work) while others apply their perfectionist tendencies to every aspect of their lives.
Perfectionism is often looked at by those who don’t share the same obsession as a negative personality trait. In reality, perfectionism has both positive and negative impacts.
Learning to work within the constraints of being a perfectionist can lead to much higher productivity, but not working with those traits can lead to much lower productivity. Read more
10 Dec
How to Deal with Feature Creep
Business, Clients, How to
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If any assumption is safe, it’s that six months after launching a website (or sooner?), its owners will have a list of things they want to change, from minor typos to entirely new functionality.
Is it possible to accept feature creep as a natural (or at least inevitable) process?
Many websites begin to fail when their goals change or their scope expands.
Feature creep sets in when a client asks for one tiny adjustment that takes only a minute… and then never stops making requests.
Accepting feature creep as a natural process requires an ability to distinguish between a genuine need and a run-away imagination or “Wouldn’t it be great if…” Read more
9 Jun
5 Rotten Things No One Else Has Told You About the Clients You’ll Work For
Clients, Freelancing
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In over 10 years of freelancing I’ve had the fortune, and sometimes misfortune, of working with some unusual clients.
While each client is a unique individual, I’ve found that many characteristics and behaviors are similar from client to client.
Most of my clients are typically small business owners in the US.
If you are working with a different type of clientele, your experience may differ, but probably not by too much.
It’s my hope that in learning this information you’ll be able to make better preparations and decisions for yourself and your business. Read more