Carrie Cousins
Carrie Cousins is a freelance writer with more than 10 years of experience in the communications industry, including writing for print and online publications, and design and editing. You can connect with Carrie on Twitter @carriecousins.
3 Essential Design Trends, January 2019
New year, new design trends!
While everyone is talking about big-picture trends such as designing for voice and virtua…
10 Ways to Avoid Designer Burnout in 2019
It’s going to happen at some point this year; you will face designer burnout.
One of the reasons that burnout is so com…
What’s New for Designers, December 2018
Happy holidays!
This collection of new tools and resources is our gift to you this season. And there are plenty of hol…
3 Essential Design Trends, December 2018
It can be hard to think about, and take on new design projects at this time of year. Maybe a little design inspiration …
What’s New for Designers, November 2018
Designers and developers are hard at work creating tons of new goodies to make work life easier. This month’s roundup o…
10 Tips for Building a Visual Language
A visual language is just like any other form of communication.
Where “language” refers to spoken or written communicat…
3 Essential Design Trends, November 2018
When looking at good design, I often look for things that aren’t totally obvious. There’s an instinct that you like som…
What’s New for Designers, October 2018
You might notice a theme this month in our collection of new tools for designers: color. There are lots of color resour…
3 Essential Design Trends, October 2018
This month’s trends have something in common: You’ve probably seen all of these ideas before, maybe just presented in a…
Loving & Hating the Hamburger Icon
I love the hamburger menu. I hate the hamburger menu.
I am constantly contradicting myself about this tiny website elem…
What’s New for Designers, September 2018
This month’s collection of new tools and elements for designers has a common theme – productivity. There are so many th…
3 Essential Design Trends, September 2018
While this tends to be the time of year when things start to slow a bit in the design world, there are still trends tha…
What’s New for Designers, August 2018
What’s old is new again; that’s the theme this month with new tools for designers with a few new tools that are rooted …
10 Ways to Design Your Website for Mobile Speed
Have you performed a mobile speed test lately? How does your website rank? A slow website can turn mobile users away. I…
3 Essential Design Trends, August 2018
From light and bright designs to complex data visualizations and a new take on polygons, this month’s design trends are…
What’s New for Designers, July 2018
What kind of projects are you working on? It might be the hotter days (with more time at a computer) that have me focus…
Help! I Can’t Stop Wasting Time…
There are so many distractions when you are a freelancer. From kids coming into your home office or time sucks like Fac…
Should Freelancers Join a Professional Network?
One of the biggest concerns that freelancers have is that they can be isolated from others in similar fields. So can a …
