Graphic design is a competitive business. It is important for designers to strive to be original and user their own imagination to come up with novel ideas that appeal to their desired target audience. And at times, it can be seriously daunting. So, if you are a graphic design newbie and struggling to think of creative ideas, balance communication between clients, cope up with the massive workload, or finding it hard to keep up with deadlines, keep on reading – we have put together some tried-and-true hacks for being a more effective graphic designer. Even if you are an expert designer, having a few tricks up your sleeve can make you more agile and efficient. Happy Designing!
6. Keep Your Camera Handy: Create your
own library of real life photos.
7. Did you know that the search for Instagram-esque
imagery hit an overwhelming 661% rise in 2013 and
they are still in vogue.
8. Rent out a cloud server: Make space for more work, store drafts and
archives on the cloud.
9. 5 Reasons why you should store data on cloud:
1. Access to data in disaster
2. Cost Effective
3. Unlimited Storage
4. Easy to organize
5. Effortless sharing over the Web
10. Use Keyboard Shortcuts: Learn shortcuts for
graphic design tools and employ them
frequently.
13. Limit social media usage: Restrict social media
activities to specific hours (not more than 3).
14. US users spend more time on social media
than any other major internet activity,
including email.
Average usage times for social media rose
from 1.72 hours per day in 2013 to 1.66 hours
per day in 2014.
The average user logs 1.72 hours per day on
social platforms.
19. Avoid the chicken and egg trap: You can’t edit a blank page.
Don’t wait for the right moment, start now. And don’t let
your doubt sabotage your success.
24. “The creative process springs as much from the subconscious as it
does from a conscious thought process. Most often, creative
solutions are not wrestled from your mind through sheer force of
will. Eureka moments tend to occur spontaneously, almost always
when the conscious mind is thinking of something else, or nothing
at all.”
25. Create a repository of ideas: Create
a dump (Excel or Word File) for
unripe ideas for future reference.
26. A single idea from the human
mind can build cities. An idea
can transform the world and
rewrite all the rules. ~ Cobb,
Inception