Designer of the Future 2.0: 5 Lectures for Designers

 Design Designer of the Future 2.0: 5 Lectures for Designers On December 9, practicing designers spoke at a meetup held in the CONTENTED lecture hall. Their lectures are designed to help a designer learn to understand business problems and focus primarily on solving them, and not on design for the ...

Empathy tools in the work of a designer

 Design Empathy tools in the work of a designer One of the most important qualities of a designer is empathy, the ability to put oneself in another person’s shoes and feel the same way that he or she feels. Kostya Gorsky tells how to develop empathy and use it as ...

“And the clock is ticking”: Time management for a designer

 Design “And the clock is ticking”: Time management for a designer Let’s define what time management is and why you need it. Usually this means managing and organizing time in order to find a free moment. But no matter how hard we try, each and every one of us has ...

Self-development of a designer: 11 ways

 Design Self-development of a designer: 11 ways Design is a lively and ever-evolving field. Trends, needs change, new technologies and frameworks appear. Who does not go forward – he slowly moves back. Just having received an education, you are just entering the first stage, after which there is a long ...

Client and Designer: VS or &?

 Design Client and Designer: VS or &? I’m sure everyone knows about these two clans. In one of them, the motto “Again they painted the wrong thing” is alive forever. In the second, they chant “Yes, they themselves do not understand what they want.” And the battles between them for ...

10 designer lectures on creativity

 Design 10 designer lectures on creativity Art directors, type designers, artists, designers, owners of their own studios – everyone shared an interesting story that is worth reading! Andrey Zubrilov. Superpower About the classics in design, the choice of a profession and disclosure in it, about design laboratories as the future ...

I want to change my profession and become a designer: where to run and what to do

 Design I want to change my profession and become a designer: where to run and what to do The main thing is not to run, but to think and choose the best for yourself. Now, with the light hand of advertisers, the world is replete with opportunities to find yourself ...

Designer Portfolio: What? How many? How? Where?

 Design Designer Portfolio: What? How many? How? Where? Does a professional designer need a portfolio? And if necessary, how many works should it contain? Let’s figure it out! There are two common opinions in the design environment. First, a good designer doesn’t need a portfolio. Second, a designer is not ...

5 stages of designer development

 Design 5 stages of designer development Translation of material by Dennis Humbekers, strategic design consultant at Zuiderlicht. The designer goes through several stages of development. Each is distinguished by its own set of requirements, goals and the nature of the work. Based on the Invision Design Frontier report and Greiner’s ...

Where and how to study as a designer

 Design Where and how to study as a designer When I started working as a ux designer (I was retraining from a programmer) there was nowhere to study. For the entire post-Soviet space there was one studio of Lebedev, his own blog “mastery” and several translated books. Now the problem ...