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Hi Everyone! We all know it is like to be in our work environment and experience many type of challenges - client deadlines, creating more time for the creative process, encountering design blocks, creating new client relationships, etc - I am interested in knowing what types of challenges that you are encountering at the workplace. If you don't feel comfortable commenting, please feel free to private message me. I would love to know more about your thoughts as it will help me tremendously! Thank you so much for your help, hope you are well and have an amazing day!
Acquire the tools. The industry standard applications for graphic design are Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. (If you plan to go all-out, the full Adobe Creative Suite includes Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Premiere, Photoshop, InDesign and After Effects.) While both applications are designed to be easy to use from the start, they are very feature rich and will require a great deal of focused effort to master them.
You have to be a jack-of-all-trades : Whether a designer works alone or with a small team
You need great people skills : While most customers are delightful to work with, if you’re in the business for long enough you’ll inevitably run into the ones who aren’t so delightful
You have to decide between local and online vendors : When Blue Barn Graphics, a small website design company in New York, offers printed products (such as business cards, catalogs, brochures, etc.
You have to produce social content for SEO : The success of a small website design company depended on how well they get their name out in the online marketplace
I see the common challenge is that people usually don't understand the design process.
The design process consists of seven stages. First, the design problem and the target audience needs to be defined. A precise understanding of the problem and its constraints allows more exact solutions to be developed. This stage determines what is necessary for the project to be successful. The research stage reviews information such as the history of the design problem, end-user research and opinion-led interviews, and identifies potential obstacles. Ideate is the stage where end-user motivations and needs are identified and ideas are generated to meet these, perhaps through brainstorming. Prototyping sees the resolve or working-up of these ideas, which are presented for user-group and stakeholder review, prior to being presented to the client.Selection sees the proposed solutions reviewed against the design brief objective. Some solutions might be practical but may not be the best ones. Implementation sees design development and its final delivery to the client. Learning helps designers improve their performance and, for this reason,designers should seek client and target audience feedback and determine if the solution met the goals of the brief. This may identify improvements that can be made in the future. While the design process is often linear, it frequently involves revisiting earlier segments for reworking as it evolves.
