The Ultimate Guide to Staying Relevant as a Graphic Designer in 2023

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The two largest and fastest growing markets for graphic designers during the past 20 years have been website design and logo design. Things have changed, and these once highly lucrative markets are no longer the free-flowing fountains of cash they once were. How did this happen? Where does it leave you now? And what can you do about it? These are some of the questions we’ll try to answer in this article.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Fixing Responsive Design Issues in 2023

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Most websites using responsive design are using it incorrectly, which leads to problems. The general approach to responsive design is a lazy one, and if you take that approach, some of your responsive sites will work absolutely flawlessly, and many of them won’t. For those that do work perfectly, it will probably come down to a matter of luck.

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What Every Designer Should Know About Spec Work

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Suppose for a moment that you want to get your house painted. You call a painter and he comes over to your house. Imagine his surprise to discover that you’ve called three other painters to the same job.

If you took these four guys into a room and announced “Here’s the deal… I want each of you to paint one wall in this room, and whichever one of you I think has done the best job of their wall gets to paint the rest of the house!” How well do you think that is gonna go down?

That’s definitely a lead balloon situation, that one.

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The Public Perception of Graphic Designers That Needs Fixing

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You could be forgiven for thinking the average man in the street understands what a graphic designer does, but it’s readily apparent that they do not. Sure, there’s a basic understanding that you work with graphics or pictures, but very little understanding of what is involved in the production of a graphic design.

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Site Design Myths Stifling Creativity

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Want to know something that’s costing you visitors, money and time, but is easily preventable?

It’s the myths your marketing team (and maybe even people higher up the chain of command) have gobbled up about site design and the user experience, believing them simply because somebody with a little bit of fame said them, and everybody just went “Yeah, that sounds about right!”

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