Articles tagged "Design"

The 6 Best Apps for Creating and Mailing Greeting Cards

Never forget to drop a card in the mail again. The best greeting card services and apps automatically send cards on your behalf, whether they're birthday cards to friends and family or a note at the end of the year thanking clients.

Screenshot Tools, Tips, and Shortcuts: How to Capture Anything on Your Screen

Screenshots are the simplest way to show off your new program, point out a bug, and save that picture on Facebook to your camera roll. They're the easiest way to save anything on your screen.

Inspect Element: How to Temporarily Edit Any Webpage

There's a powerful tool hiding in your browser: Inspect Element.

5 tips to help you grow your design skills quickly

From things you should avoid to helpful tips that aren't obvious to a design beginner, here are some of the most helpful hacks of design professionals.

How Pinterest templates changed the way I do business

Adding an image of your favorite recipe or throw pillow to Pinterest isn't hard. But if you're a small business that uses Pinterest as a marketing tool (like mine does!), you know how time-consuming and tiresome it is to constantly design Pins.

5 tips for working with freelance designers

I have good news: the outcome of collaborating with a freelance designer on your project doesn't have to be left up to the Fates. Here are a few things you can do to improve your work with freelance designers and increase the chances of project success.

Increase sales by finding your target audience and niching down

When I first started offering digital services through my design studio, Happily Hedy, I was a generalist. From email marketing to logos, I was doing everything. And while this brought in tons of leads, it was ultimately unsustainable as a business.

How to collect the right information for your creative briefs

Working for an in-house design team means that your colleagues will assume you have all the context you need to create your designs. You all work for the same company, so you all know all the things, right? Not so much.

How we use Zapier to generate automated reports to improve team buy-in

I have a business background, and my head operates in a certain way. Numbers just seem to make a lot of sense. Design, on the other hand, not so much.