Our blog post this week is aimed at web and graphic designers.<\/p>\n
Over the 10 years that I\u2019ve worked as a web director, I\u2019ve had the opportunity to work alongside a wide variety of different designers.
\nEach designer has had their own strengths and working styles, but the ones who I was most impressed with tended to have a few points in common. Today I would like to introduce those 7 key points.
\nIf you\u2019re looking to improve your design skills, or learn some tips for becoming the sort of designer who web directors will ask to work with, I hope this article can be useful to you.<\/p>\n
When designers can accurately estimate the amount of time it will take them to finish a task, it makes it easier for directors to create a schedule. This gives the whole team a greater sense of security, and helps ensure that projects meet their deadlines.<\/p>\n
Working in the creative industry doesn\u2019t mean simply making things exactly the way you\u2019re told to. Directors are delighted when designers can make their own self-directed suggestions about how to improve upon the client\u2019s initial request.<\/p>\n
The best designers make sure to check in at each key point, to make sure that they are on the right track. This helps eliminate misunderstandings and reduce the need for revisions.<\/p>\n
Commercial design always has a purpose. Designers should always be able to give clear answers when asked about the intention behind their layouts, fonts, colors, and other design choices.<\/p>\n
At our company, we often say \u201cSpeed \u200b\u200bis the highest quality.\u201d Of course, speed can not make a poor design into a good one, but designers should always be looking for new ways to reduce their work time as much as possible. Even differences of a few seconds add up over time, and designers who can manage time well will receive more requests for work.<\/p>\n
All humans make mistakes. However, there is a clear difference between mistakes that occur despite double-checking, and mistakes that occur when you haven\u2019t checked at all. Competent designers make sure to take the time to double-check their work for any errors.<\/p>\n
In an industry where technology advances literally every day, it\u2019s important for designers to keep their skills up to date.<\/p>\n
This article is purely my own opinion, but I believe that the best designers all share these 7 characteristics. Creating quality designs is obviously the most important part of being a designer, but if designers also hone their communication and time management skills, they will rapidly become able to produce better and better work.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our blog post this week is aimed at web and graphic designers. Over the 10 years that I\u2019ve worked as a web dir […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monji.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monji.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monji.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monji.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monji.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/monji.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/monji.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monji.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monji.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monji.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}