To be honest, this post could easily become a 21-things post, but when I mulled over the rest of the things, I decided that some of them were not as bad.
So here we go in no particular order:
- Fill the white space.
White space is not for everyone, I know, but when used effectively, it can speak more words than any sentence or picture ever could. - Design in a non-design program or app.
Yes, I get it. Sometimes everyone wants to be able to edit and add to a design. But there is a reason behind the usage of actual design software. It is called magic. I can’t do fully editable magic in PowerPoint. I promise I will try, but the chances that my original design is done in Illustrator (or whichever software I decided to use) are 99%. - Make it pop.
I am not a weasel, I don’t pop. I don’t add pizazz either. Of course, I am happy to brighten up your design’s colours or straighten out some creases or whatever, but pop and pizazz are two no-go words in my design vocabulary. I once won the MIP (Make It Pop) Award at work and received a Blossom bauble as a prize. Even though it touched my heart deeply, it still remains a touchy subject. - Do what you want.
Any designer’s dream is to do what they want. And when someone tells me to do that (except my husband because that’s normally how the fight starts), I do just that: What I want. I don’t get it, though. It seems like whatever you did when you had free reign, triggered a non-existent brief and all of a sudden you have a new project to work on… from scratch. - ASAP
The most-dreaded thing you can tell me. In this post’s points 5 & 6, I explain my feelings about ASAP pretty well. I am deadline-driven. When you give me a date and a time, I will bend backwards to be on time. Your meeting schedule doesn’t say ASAP, my calendar doesn’t support that term either. You have to be a little more specific.
Thank you in advance 😉
