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Life Lessons
for Designers70 brought to you by Marc & Joel from Design Inc.
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Marc Joel
Founder, CEO | @hemeon Head of Design | @_bklmn
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Design Inc. helps
designers find work
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Show more than images
in your portfolio
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Don’t worry
about your title
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Its okay to design for free
I do it too
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If your design is
what you imagined…
it’s probably wrong
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If you do something,
something will happen
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Enjoy the journey.
Shipping is a marathon.
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Quality is your problem
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Beautiful because you care
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Icons with text are easier to
understand than icons alone
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Save time, use patterns
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Design in black and white
and add color later
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Pixel perfect design is dead
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Use real content
not lorum ipsum
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You are not Aaron Draplin.
find your own Futura Bold
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Punch above
your weight class
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Design one for the
stakeholder and one for you
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Done is better than perfect
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Saying NO is a strength
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Distraction is the enemy
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Don’t be defined
by your work
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Always talk to the
person next to you
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8 Work - 8 Rest - 8 You
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Sidework leads = next job
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Share your contact info
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Resentment causes burnout
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Be impeccable
with your word
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Stop using this, it, that
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Stop using “you know”
HT @saturday
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Stop saying
Um, I think, I feel and So
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Contribute more, take less
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Design like a Scientist
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Success =
80% Sell, 20% Design
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If it's not a "Hell Yes”,
its a no.
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Market rate =
the average of your 3 friends
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Invoice every two weeks
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Say thank you,
how else can I help?
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Marc Joel
joel@designinc.com
@_bklmn
bkl.mn
youtube.com/bklmn
marc@designinc.com
@hemeon
https://medium.com/@hemeon
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