🚀 A message to all designers: Please, stop creating content with the mindset of getting likes & followers. It's a BAD strategy- it does not work.
You don't need to understand every single little detail on how the Instagram algorithm works to 'grow your following'. If you want to build an audience online, YOU just need to create.
Be a leader, not a follower. Don't let the algorithm prohibit your creativity. We are designers, creators, inventors- don't play the social media game on how the algorithm wants you to play it.
So what makes a good social media strategy? Experimenting, being human, caring. Being able to translate these characteristics into your social media branding is a WINNING strategy.
🔥 Let me help you build that strategy! Head to the link in our bio NOW to secure a FREE Instagram Consultancy with Ryan Hayward (@theryanhayward).
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Forming part of a collective manifesto, this thought-provoking poster was designed by Pentagram partner @harrywpearce for New School Rules, an exhibition @bury_art_museum which is curated by @designmcr, and forms part of DM19.
Inspired by Sister Corita Kent and John Cage’s ‘10 Art School Rules for Students’, artists, designers and image-makers were asked to produce an artwork inspired by the question ‘What is the one rule you have learnt at your own personal art school, which you still refer to today?’.
See the results at Bury Art Museum until 25 January 2020.
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How to Grow on Instagram by @morejanda
No tricks. No gimmicks. Real followers.
The right way to grow your account!
01 Define your audience
Decide who you are talking to and talk only to them. Don’t worry if your uncle unfollows you.
02 Create valuable content
Valuable content is defined as “content your audience will care about.”
03 Engage with your audience
Reply to every direct message. Thank people for following you. Reply to comments. Share other people’s posts. Comment on their posts. In summary, engagement creates engagement.
04 Collaborate with Others
Create content collaborations with other people. This broadens awareness of both of your accounts by exposing you to a new audience. Bonus, it also increases the diversity of your content.
05 Shout out people “just because”
Share other people’s posts in your stories and shout out other people’s accounts. Don’t ask them to reshare it. Do it “just because.” Let shares and reshares happen naturally.
06 Use good hashtags
Use hashtags that directly apply to the content you are sharing. Don’t use the same hashtag block over and over again. Instagram allows 30 hashtags in a post and 10 hashtags in a story. 07 Be consistent & patient
Post consistently (1-3 times per day and 5-7 days per week). Engage with your audience daily. Be patient. Growth can take time. Don’t give up before it happens.
DO THESE...
Define your audience
Create valuable content
Engage with your audience
Collaborate with others
Shout out people “just because”
Use good hashtags
Be consistent & patient
DON'T DO THESE...
Follow / Unfollow
Use click bait
Use comment bait
Steal other people’s content
Give up too fast
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HOW TO MAKE YOUR WEBSITE DESIGNS RULE IN 2020
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01 MAKE SITE SPEED AN ABSOLUTE PRIORITY - If your site is slow, visitors will not stick around.
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02 LEVERAGE THE FOLD - In 2018, people spent 57% of their time above the fold.
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03 TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HICK’S LAW - Hick’s Law states that the more choices an individual has, the longer they will take to make a decision.
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04 KEEP IT SIMPLE - The more complex your design, the less it is perceived as beautiful.
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05 AVOID CAROUSELS, SLIDERS, TABS AND ACCORDIONS - Webmasters noticed that the first slide on a carousel received almost 90% of the clicks.
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06 PRIORITIZE SCROLLING OVER CLICKING - Put everything in one long page, including the stuff usually tucked away.
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07 DIRECT ATTENTION WITH VISUAL CUES - You can guide users by giving different weight to different elements.
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08 USE PEOPLE IN PICTURES - Besides using them to direct attention, including other people on your site is a great idea.
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As a creator, you’re expected to have unlimited creativity. You often can’t afford to take days just to come up with an idea. Unfortunately, we all have limits and when we push ourselves to meet deadlines that creativity can be hampered.
One of the simplest solutions is to find design resources that can make our job easier. This might be in the form of templates, images or even inspirational designs. Each of these resources can save us from having to come up with solutions ourselves.
I have prepared a list of 20 Design Resources I think will help you in ways you can't imagine. I also shared my personal favorites.
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COLOR MODELS & COLOR SPACES by @morejanda // A color model is a mathematical way that colors can be represented using numbers. When a color model is used with specific parameters it is called a color space.
Example:
Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) is a color model. sRGB is a color space that defines a specific range of Red, Green, and Blue colors that can be displayed on a screen.
sRGB was created by Microsoft and HP in 1996. It is the most common and accurate RGB color space.
CMYK
CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) is a color model used for printing color. CMYK was invented in 1906 by the Eagle Printing Ink Company. It is a “subtractive” model, which means that it is made up of “impure” colors that absorb light. There are many different CMYK color spaces that are used for different presses and sets of inks.
RGB
RGB (Red, Green, Blue) is a color model used for for displaying color on a screen. RGB is an “additive” model made up of “pure” colors, which means that when all three colors are combined, the result is white. Common color spaces for the RGB color model include sRGB and Adobe RGB, among others.
Lab
Lab (or CIELAB) color model is defined with three variables: L - lightness ranging from black to white, a - ranging from green to red, and b - ranging from blue to yellow. Lab color includes all colors in the spectrum, including colors that are outside human perception.
HEX
HEX (hexadecimal) is a color space used for for displaying color on a web page. HEX is an RGB based color space that converts RGB values into code for web design.
Pantone
Pantone is a color matching system used to standardize colors for printing. The Pantone company was founded in 1962 by Lawrence Herbert. By using the Pantone Matching System (PMS), designers and printers can work in the same color space to ensure accurate reproduction of design.
Defining Colors
Using different color models and color spaces, a single color can be defined in many different ways. In design you will find yourself working across a wide variety of color spaces depending on the needs of the design.
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9696710 hours ago
Branding Tips #5
If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect’s mind. A word that nobody else owns.
https://traitsoft.com/branding/
Fot the Designers,
By the Designers,
Of the Designers.
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This is a late Thanksgiving post. Wanted to thank this amazing design community for being there whenever I wanted. This is the greatest community that has every come together.
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I've tagged certain people who've helped me a lot as a part of showing them some love. .
Share this in your story or leave a comment so that people will know you are there for the design community always. ♥️♥️
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Leave a thanks note for your favorite designer in the comments.
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A minute isn’t enough time to talk about Willi Kunz but here’s a quick breakdown of the way he creates information hierarchy through typography, shape and color.
I don’t think there’s any designer working who uses such a rationalist information architecture design method to make formal graphics. His peers April Greiman and Dan Friedman are 2 notable designers for working in a similar mode for a minute but they jumped shipped pretty quickly.
I did a post on how to make mockups in photoshop and this seemed like a good topic to follow up with. I guess all of use use mockups at this point but many of us don't use it in a way it's meant to be used.
Mockups serve a specific purpose. They're not just purely cosmetics. They tell a story. A presentation including mockups holds the power to let your design concept shine to its full potential (but nothing more or less than what it represents).
Having years of experience using mockups and even making them, I wrote down do's and don'ts of using mockups at the end of the carousel.
Take a look at it and let me know if you've been using it correctly. 🤔
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It’s a Saturday, so here goes something fun to mix things up like a bag of Skittles 😄
I asked a bunch of my friends here on Instagram, who also happen to be some kick-ass designers from around the world, the following:
“What was your favourite treat as a kid?”
I got quite a few responses, so I’ll be splitting them up over the coming weeks leading up to Christmas.
Big thanks goes out to:
Ioana - @uxgoodies
Michael - @morejanda
Julian - @juju.branding
Tom - @tomrossmedia
Trupti - @trupsfolio
Jacob - @justcreative
Shane - @aspectbrands
For getting involved for Part 1!
But a greater thanks goes out to my Aussie mate Shane @aspectbrands for giving us this fun idea of his, to be able to create this and share with you guys…”he’s an idea’s man”.
That idea, for those of you playing at home, was how many designers on Instagram are using a profile photo of themselves with a specific branded colour. So we tend to look like Skittles or M&M’s at the top of our page in the stories section.
So, what was your fave treat as a kid?
Stay tuned for Part 2!
When i first started out as a designer, i came up with a name in a rush 'cache logos' but as time passed and as i grew in my career, i felt the need to change the name.
I wasn't vibing with the former name and my scope of work has broadened so i changed the name and rebranded to accommodate my future plans for my brand. Here's bransolute now, and i like it so much.
My gut feeling was key in the decision to change the name, what you regarded as bransolute today is the work you see on this platform, without the work, the name won't matter.
Your brand name is not your work or product, the effort you put in is what defines you.
Go for a brand name that vibes with your persona, and better still if you think you don't know how to go about naming, get someone to do it for you.
Either ways, the goal is to get a name you are satisfied with, let your work define how people perceive the name.
Post was inspired by @tomrossmedia post on 'how to pick the perfect company name'
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As a designer, it’s our job to make users understand how a product will change them for better. Nobody cares about the technology behind the product, all they care about is the result of using your product. So instead so instructing with words on how a product works use images. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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“‘No’ is the start of the negotiation, not the end of it. We’ve been conditioned to fear the word ‘No.’ But it is a statement of perception far more often than of fact.” — Chris Voss
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E-commerce navigation can and will decide about conversions. We prepared 8 tips and tricks how to optimize it. Here’s first part of it.
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If it’s important for your users to get in touch with you by phone or mail, show contact details right in the consolidated menu.
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That's all for today, guys! If you find this post valuable let us know in the comments below. To not miss any other post, follow us on @pieces_of_ux. Cheers! #christmaswithpiecesofux
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Images of the HfG Ulm building by Hans G. Conrad from 1953 to 1955 for the exhibition »System Design: The Ulm School of Design and Braun« at MUGAK II International Architecture Biennial, Donostia-San Sebastian, curated by Neus Miranda and Gillermo Zuaznabar, from 25 October, 2019, to 12 January, 2020.
Images of the HfG Ulm building by Hans G. Conrad from 1953 to 1955 for the exhibition »System Design: The Ulm School of Design and Braun« at MUGAK II International Architecture Biennial, Donostia-San Sebastian, curated by Neus Miranda and Gillermo Zuaznabar, from 25 October, 2019, to 12 January, 2020.
Images of the HfG Ulm building by Hans G. Conrad from 1953 to 1955 for the exhibition »System Design: The Ulm School of Design and Braun« at MUGAK II International Architecture Biennial, Donostia-San Sebastian, curated by Neus Miranda and Gillermo Zuaznabar, from 25 October, 2019, to 12 January, 2020.
Images of the Braun pavilion at the Frankfurt fair compound by Hans G. Conrad from 1959 for the exhibition »System Design: The Ulm School of Design and Braun« at MUGAK II International Architecture Biennial, Donostia-San Sebastian, curated by Neus Miranda and Gillermo Zuaznabar, from 25 October, 2019, to 12 January, 2020.
Images of the Braun pavilion at the Frankfurt fair compound by Hans G. Conrad from 1959 for the exhibition »System Design: The Ulm School of Design and Braun« at MUGAK II International Architecture Biennial, Donostia-San Sebastian, curated by Neus Miranda and Gillermo Zuaznabar, from 25 October, 2019, to 12 January, 2020.
Images of the Braun pavilion at the Frankfurt fair compound by Hans G. Conrad from 1959 for the exhibition »System Design: The Ulm School of Design and Braun« at MUGAK II International Architecture Biennial, Donostia-San Sebastian, curated by Neus Miranda and Gillermo Zuaznabar, from 25 October, 2019, to 12 January, 2020.
Images of the Braun trade fair stand D55 by Hans G. Conrad and Otl Aicher from 1955 for the exhibition »System Design: The Ulm School of Design and Braun« at MUGAK II International Architecture Biennial, Donostia-San Sebastian, curated by Neus Miranda and Gillermo Zuaznabar, from 25 October, 2019, to 12 January, 2020.
Design of the Braun trade fair stand D55 by Hans G. Conrad and Otl Aicher from 1955 for the exhibition »System Design: The Ulm School of Design and Braun« at MUGAK II International Architecture Biennial, Donostia-San Sebastian, curated by Neus Miranda and Gillermo Zuaznabar, from 25 October, 2019, to 12 January, 2020.
Images by Hans G. Conrad from 1953 (preliminary course by Walter Paterhans) for the exhibition »System Design: The Ulm School of Design and Braun« at MUGAK II International Architecture Biennial, Donostia-San Sebastian, curated by Neus Miranda and Gillermo Zuaznabar, from 25 October, 2019, to 12 January, 2020.
Images by Hans G. Conrad from 1954/55 (showing Max Bill, Otl Aicher, Inge Aicher-Scholl, and Josef Albers) for the exhibition »System Design: The Ulm School of Design and Braun« at MUGAK II International Architecture Biennial, Donostia-San Sebastian, curated by Neus Miranda and Gillermo Zuaznabar, from 25 October, 2019, to 12 January, 2020.
Images by Hans G. Conrad from 1954/55 (preliminary course by Josef Albers) for the exhibition »System Design: The Ulm School of Design and Braun« at MUGAK II International Architecture Biennial, Donostia-San Sebastian, curated by Neus Miranda and Gillermo Zuaznabar, from 25 October, 2019, to 12 January, 2020.
Images by Hans G. Conrad from 1953 (preliminary course by Walter Peterhans) for the exhibition »System Design: The Ulm School of Design and Braun« at MUGAK II International Architecture Biennial, Donostia-San Sebastian, curated by Neus Miranda and Gillermo Zuaznabar, from 25 October, 2019, to 12 January, 2020.
Images by Hans G. Conrad from 1953 to 1959 for the exhibition »System Design: The Ulm School of Design and Braun« at MUGAK II International Architecture Biennial, Donostia-San Sebastian, curated by Neus Miranda and Gillermo Zuaznabar, from 25 October, 2019, to 12 January, 2020.
Images by Hans G. Conrad from 1953 to 1959 for the exhibition »System Design: The Ulm School of Design and Braun« at MUGAK II International Architecture Biennial, Donostia-San Sebastian, curated by Neus Miranda and Gillermo Zuaznabar, from 25 October, 2019, to 12 January, 2020.
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Students of Design from @itcarlow & @itcwexford campuses engage in trans-disciplinary workshop to map multi-campus collaborative engagement for strategies to increase understanding of Design among 14-16 year olds
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A epic #copywritting Failures⠀
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Steve Jobs once said: ''Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.''⠀
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Normally, we like to showcase great design but there’s a lot you can learn from dreadful design too. We don’t think Steve Jobs had anything to do with the 30 howlers that follow. From lousy usability to no utility we’ve got all your design failures covered here.⠀ #Repost@interaction_design_foundation
The low-hanging fruit in most student portfolios is to leverage existing projects + expand them in ways that support your goals. If you don’t have any identity work in your portfolio then an easy hack is to take an event poster, extract a visual language from that and design the branding for the event. The idea being that before you take on the heavy work of a new project to build out your body of work that, you should make sure that there’s not already something that with a few more hours or a new perspective couldn’t at least be your first take on it.
I taught a workshop on this idea in August and to show how easy it can be I forced myself to expand 3 existing projects from our portfolio in 10 days (on top of working 40 hours and teaching). I failed and only got 2 done. Here’s 1 of them.
Basic methodology:
1. Define what you want to be doing. For The MVA its music packaging.
2. What is missing in your portfolio that would be evidence that you want to do this? For us we had a bunch of digital music graphics but no recent packaging projects.
3. Are there any projects that could be leveraged to fill in the gaps? We had 2—the Josh Harmony EP cover and a artwork for single by Delv.
4. Define the DNA of the design (Step 1 of any design project is always some form of research) and explore freely. I did about 10 versions of back covers and labels for “Easy Answer” with textured paper, hand-made type, and primary colors.
5. Pick one. @kimberleewhaley actually picked the back cover. I like everything so I just let other people decide what to use.
6. That’s it.