Business of Design
What Is Design Strategy and How to Apply It to Projects as Freelance Web/Graphic Designer
Story: The value of graphic/web design design service in 2023 Simply creating graphics or websites from templates has diminished in value as clients can easily find numerous designers online, many of whom ...
Best ManyPixels Alternative – Graphic Design Subscription by Open Bookmarks Co.
Story: What is the design subscription? Rather than making individual payments for each design project, a design subscription offers the convenience of paying a fixed monthly or yearly fee for a designated ...
Best Kimp Alternative – Graphic Design Subscription by Open Bookmarks Co.
Story: What is the design subscription? Rather than dealing with individual payments for each design project, a design subscription offers the convenience of a consistent monthly or yearly fee in exchange for ...
Best Undullify Alternative – Graphic Design Subscription by Open Bookmarks Co.
Story: What is the design subscription? When you need design work done, paying separately for each project can be a hassle. With a design subscription, you pay a set amount every month ...
Business of Design
Best Design Pickle Alternative – Graphic Design Subscription by Open Bookmarks Co.
Story: What is the design subscription? Instead of making separate payments for each individual design project, a design subscription enables you to pay a consistent monthly or yearly charge for a specific ...
Best Adobe Stock Alternatives for Freelance Web/Graphic Designer
Story: Paid service for stock photos If you are a freelance web/graphic web designer, you may be using stock photo services. I wrote about free stock photo sitex below in 2018. 3 ...
How to Understand the Economy as a Freelance Web/Graphic Designer
Story: Economy and design When I started my career as a graphic designer, my boss said, you need to read a newspaper. I was focused on only design skills and knowledge at ...
What Is W-8BEN for Freelance Web/Graphic Designer Who is Using Upwork in Canada?
Story: For all Upwork users in the world? It is the end of 2022, I received an email from Upwork. Hi Takashi, We are reaching out because we are required to make ...
What is Artificial Intelligence(AI)? How Does AI Works?
Story: Coexistence of human and AI In December 2022, ChatGTP is released. Many YouTuber shows a demo of how ChatGTP works. Nowadays, when I watch the video on YouTube, people often talk ...
What is Contents Creation as Freelance Web/Graphic Designer
Story: Marketing is useful A content creator is someone who creates entertaining or educational material to be expressed through any medium or channel. - Adobe There are many media in our life. ...
Design Subscription Business Model for Freelance Web/Graphic Designer
Story: Design and business There are many industries and occupancies, but you choose the web/graphic designer as a career somehow. Because you like design (assume 🤔). We are blessed, because we found ...
Mourning: Dr. Kazuo Inamori – Philosophy & Achievement
Story: Influenced Who is your influenced person in your life? e.g. parents, teacher, close friends, etc... I understand each response. In my case, it is Dr. Kazuo Inamori who is a Japanese ...
What Is 3D Printing and How Does It Work?
Story: Next disrupt startup The most expensive shopping in life will be housing. In immigrant countries, such as United State and Canada, I can hear about the housing crisis on TV. My ...
Study of Design
How To Speed Up WordPress Website Loading Time and Performance
Story: Website speed In the bustling online landscape, where attention spans are shorter than ever, the speed at which your WordPress website loads can make or break the user experience. A slow-loading ...
How to Use GSAP as No-Code Web/Graphic Designer
Story: Advanced interactive website I discovered Webflow in 2019 and have been using it occasionally. I enjoy website development on Webflow, but most clients prefer WordPress and Wix. They generally don't request ...
How To Create Effective Lead Generation Quizzes as Freelance Web/Graphic Desginer
Story: Business needs leads Every business requires leads; they signify demand. Without leads, there is no business. Lead generation is the process of identifying and attracting potential customers, or "leads," who have ...
What is Lead Magnet? Ideas and Examples
Story: What is lead magnet? A lead magnet is a marketing incentive offered to potential customers in exchange for their contact information. It's designed to attract and convert prospects into leads. Examples ...
Study of Design
How to Develop a Website by WordPress Gutenberg as Freelance Web/Graphic Designer
Story: What is Gutenberg on WordPress? WordPress Gutenberg, unveiled in WordPress 5 with the codename, is a groundbreaking block-based editor that replaces the conventional WordPress editor relying on TinyMCE. This transformation signifies ...
How to Create a Website by Framer as a Freelance Web/Graphic Designer
Story: Webflow vs Framer I've noticed that people are comparing Webflow and Framer on YouTube. I'm uncertain whether they're promoting Framer as affiliates or not. It feels like about 70% of the ...
How to Create a Website by Webflow Vol.25 – Relume
Story: Prototype to Webflow Half a year has passed since AI, particularly ChatGPT, experienced a significant boom. In this short span of six months, a plethora of AI tools has emerged. New ...
How to Manage the Project with Trello as a Freelance Web/Graphic Designer
Story: Project management software What project software do you use? • Asana • Moday • ClickUp • Basecamp • Notion • Other We utilize a variety of tools at our disposal, although ...
How to Use AI Tools as a Freelance Web/Graphic Designer – Adobe Firefly
Story: Graphic design and A.I. AI is booming in 2023. Every week some A.I. tools have published and not easy to follow all of them. Even so, I keep trying new products ...
How to Use AI Tools as a Freelance Web/Graphic Designer – ChatGTP Chrome Extensions
Story: Power of collaboration The AI transformation is expected to continue booming in 2023. As an avid listener of "This Week in Startup," I come across new AI tools being introduced every ...
How to Use AI Tools as a Freelance Web/Graphic Designer – PaLM 2/Bard
Story: Google AI According to the ChatGPT, Google AI has 2 decades of history below. Early Beginnings: Google has been interested in AI research since its early years. In 1999, Google's founders, ...
How to Reach $100K on UpWork as a Freelance Web/Graphic Designer
Story: Learn from mistake During my early days on UpWork(in 2020), I quickly earned around $10K. I kept using the platform until mid-2022. However, I became cautious about spending too much time ...
How to Use AI Tools as a Freelance Web/Graphic Designer – InVideo
Story: Text to video InVideo offers users the ability to incorporate voiceover into their videos and takes advantage of automated text-to-speech technology for added convenience. The user-friendly editor empowers individuals to effortlessly ...
How to Use AI Tools as a Freelance Web/Graphic Designer – Magic Eraser
Story: Photoshop Magic Eraser is an AI tool that helps users remove unwanted elements from images in a matter of seconds. It uses a simple three-step process: upload, mark the bit you ...
Life of Design
Digital Nomad 401 as a Freelance Web/Graphic Designer in San Francisco, California
Story: Summer of 2023 In June 2023, I decided to return to WeWork after leaving at the end of February. This time, I signed a 5-month contract. However, I've been feeling the ...
The Best Commencement Address For Freelance Graphic Designer Vol.5
Story: Graduation after the COVID In June 2023, YouTube recommended the University channel to me, which had posted a commencement speech. YouTube seems to know my preferences well. I can imagine that ...
Worst User Experience as Freelance Web/Graphic Designer – Bluehost
Story: Think about user experience in life User Experience Design may be terminology, but the user experience is everywhere in life, cafe, restaurant, grocery store, shopping, gym, yoga, bank, and public transit, ...
Trivial User Experience of Black Friday Shopping at Lululemon
Story: November 25, 2022 Black Friday is a colloquial term for the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United ...
Life of Design
Tokyo & Yokohama in 3 Days for Freelance Web/Graphic Designer
Story: What to do... It has been 2 years since I visited Japan last time, I returned to my hometown for a month in December 2019 (right before COVID). I mainly spend ...
What is VPN & How it Work?
Story: Podcast ad When I listen to podcast programs, This Week in Startups, Andrew Yang, etc, on YouTube, I often hear the word, VPN. It is something related to security, but I ...
Digital Nomad 301 as a Freelance Web/Graphic Designer in Los Angeles, California
Story: After COVID, summer of 2022 On June 26, 2022, it feels like the first day of summer this year. Even so, it is around 30 degrees. Compare with other cities, Vancouver ...
The Scamming Experience as Freelance – Wilson Tander
Story: wilsonetander68@gmail.com *I actually don't know the purpose whether a scam or anything else. I received an inquiry from Wilson Tander, wilsonetander68@gmail.com, through the Webflow Proffecional partner board. I have ...
The Future of Work as a Freelance Graphic/Web Designer
Story: Think about the future It's a quiet Sunday morning. I reflect on the last week and prepare for this week. YouTube recommends what I may like. I watched, The next 10 ...
The Best Commencement Address For Freelance Graphic Designer Vol.4
Story: Graduation season In June, it's graduation season. I can find many commencement speeches video in the United States. I am listening to it to increase motivation. I feel that graduating from ...
Supplement 101 – Fish Oil / Omega 3
Story: Quality of work depends on your condition I believe that good work comes from good conditions. When we have pain, we cannot focus on work. Therefore, I care about my health ...
TFSA/RRSP for Freelance Graphic/Web Designer
Story: About financial Sometime in 2021, I visited TD Bank for making a new business credit card for Facebook ads. I talked with a staff, not a teller. She helped me to ...
Digital Nomad 201 as a Freelance Web/Graphic Designer in Toronto, Canada
Story: Next destination in winter 2021 After I came back to Vancouver, BC from Montreal, QC in September 2021, I have become an all-access member at WeWork. It was 40% off in ...
The Best City for Freelance Web/Graphic Designer in Canada
Story: Benefit of graphic designer One of the benefits of a graphic designer, web designer, web developer, programmer, or software engineer is that we can find a job everywhere in the world ...
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