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Top 10 Creativity Myths Debunked

The exact source of creative ideas has mystified people for eons. Myths and superstitions are frequently used to explain how and why people feel the need to express themselves with creative endeavors. Because so many find originality enchanting, the myths we attribute to artists and other creatives are rarely...

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How to Advertise Without Advertising

Advertising is all around us. From the smallest start-up to legacy Fortune 500 companies, everyone is competing to get their message out in the world where prospective customers can see it and engage with it. With their being so ubiquitous, are traditional marketing and advertising methods still effective? People have...

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Professional Boundaries and Remote Work

The rise in remote work has blurred the line between working and non-working hours for many people. Companies adjusting to various events in the last several years have - purposefully or not - stacked the responsibilities of several jobs on the shoulders of a single remote worker. It’s not always...

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Why We Need Service Design

Services provide a user experience just as much as traditional goods do. The line between the two has been blurring in recent decades because of new combinations of internet services and concrete goods. For example, a food delivery app is providing a transportation service but the food being delivered...

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Navigating the Return to Work

Unprecedented changes in the last two years completely changed the way we look at work and work arrangements. At some points, this happened with little or no warning. The push toward remote work has been one of the most pressing initiatives for businesses in every industry and creatives were...

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Effective Recruiting on a Limited Budget

Honoring your recruitment budget and getting the best talent aren’t necessarily opposing ideas. Like many other aspects of the general business process, targeting your hiring process and aiming it at more particular goals will save waste and make for more effective hiring decisions at the same time. But great hiring...

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10 Tips for Better Wireframing

Wireframes are one of the most important deliverables for UX designers and other creatives. They illustrate the user path so everyone on the design team and in charge of it is working toward the same goal. Good wireframing makes the design thinking behind the project apparent so that it isn’t...

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How to Transition from Graphic Design to Product Design

Graphic design and product design have many similarities, especially when it comes to their shared interest in communicating through aesthetics. However, graphic design involves information displayed through some visual medium, whether print or digital. Product design concentrates on the aesthetics of a three-dimensional product, although it can also include...

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