I quit in the midst of a pandemic and went to freelance

I quit in the midst of a pandemic and went to freelance

 April 2020. I am a hired employee working as a UX / UI designer. The pandemic is in full swing. No projects – no money, I eat crackers… You can only go outside to the store. It’s time to go freelance, I thought, and that’s what came of it. Spoiler ...
7 skills that are more important than a diploma

7 skills that are more important than a diploma

 Graphic designers are not born, they are made. And for this you don’t even need to study 5 years at an art school and the same amount at a university. Talent, drawing ability, creativity are secondary skills. Experts from the Academy of Design Professions Pentaschool, who have been training novice ...
What is the difference between logos for 1 million and 1000 rubles, and when does it make sense to pay more?

What is the difference between logos for 1 million and 1000 rubles, and when does it make sense to pay more?

 Pricing in design defies logic. And this can be seen especially clearly in the cost of logos: one cannot be sure that a work worth millions of rubles will be more successful than a free drawing on a napkin. And what about the customer then? Can you expect a good ...
Where to Grow a UI / UX Designer: Distance Abroad

Where to Grow a UI / UX Designer: Distance Abroad

 Sooner or later, a designer thinks about the future in his profession. There are many ways: get a job in a corporation, go freelance, grow in breadth (learn code, motion, 3D, etc.), grow up (become the leader of the design team, product manager, etc.), build your own project, or get ...

How a designer can feel more confident among other designers

 When studying something, in particular design, I don’t really like to focus on terminology, titles, names, titles, and so on. For example, I read a useful fact about color interaction, but did not even pay attention to the author. What does it matter to me what the name of this ...
How to effectively deal with a tough deadline

How to effectively deal with a tough deadline

 Are you having problems with deadlines? No matter how much time you have to complete a project, do you always feel the need to hurry up? Do you often encounter deadlines that feel too tight for you? Do not worry. You are not alone in your fight against deadlines. Most ...
What should a designer write on a resume to get noticed

What should a designer write on a resume to get noticed

 Hi, I’m Nikita, a product designer at Kaspersky. Looking through hundreds of designer resumes every day, I see the following picture in every second one: Work experience 10 years; I am confident in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, Illustrator, Sketch, Figma, Miro; Skills in animation, 3D, prototyping, typography and composition; I ...

Educational program. Who is an art director and what does he do?

 There is an opinion that becoming an art director is the cherished dream of any designer, especially a beginner. And if you have achieved this goal, then you have reached the top of the career Olympus. But in reality, the art director is not only about design and experience with ...
12 best 3D illustration libraries for UI designers

12 best 3D illustration libraries for UI designers

 3D illustration has become an important trend in UI design. Using tools like Cinema 4D or Blender (free by the way) allows you to create your own illustrations, and this is obviously a big advantage. You will be able to create masterpieces like the work of Peter Tark, my favorite ...
What to write in mobile onboarding

What to write in mobile onboarding

 A bit of species theory Onboarding is getting to know a product or feature. For instance, the best web hosting services offer users a wizard or self-guided tour of their features. It appears in two cases: when a person opens the application for the first time and if something has ...