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The Daft Punk Guide to Bold and Memorable Designs

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Want to create bold and memorable designs? Find unlikely inspiration from one of the most iconic electronic artists of our time: Daft Punk. This article is a 3-step Daft Punk guide to bold and memorable designs.

Daft Punk is a very popular and influential music duo, especially when you consider they come from the relatively underground genre of electronic music. But this humans-turned-robots duo who create irresistible and inventive dance music didn’t become that way by accident. They had key ingredients to their success as bold and memorable music artists.

The Power Of The New Crowdsource? The Evolution Of Online Help

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Crowdsourcing as we know it today is a terrible thing. It basically boils down to clients asking several, even hundreds of freelancers, to provide spec work in the hopes of getting their product chosen and getting paid.

No other industry I can think of does this, and is something that plagues the professional freelancers, as their work becomes devalued, especially if they participate. But I’ve discovered something new…

Simple Ways To Make More Creative Designs

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Almost every designer wants to be more creative. To make more creative designs. But as you’re well aware of, creativity is a finicky thing – you can’t just be creative at will. Yet some designers just seem to be more creative, more consistently, than others.

How de they do it? Well, one way to easily make more creative designs is to set creative limits on yourself. Doing so can really help you be creative more consistently.

5 Things The Beatles Can Teach You About Design

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The Beatles are probably one of the most iconic popular music groups of our time. They were considered the best and most popular at what they did, and they deservingly secured their spot in our history books.

Their influence and mastery of creativity extends even beyond music. In fact, there are actually 5 things the Beatles can teach you about design.

Version-Less Development: What is it and Why it’s Important

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Software and application development is a complex process. A single project may involve tens or even hundreds of people spread across dozens of teams and even multiple continents.

Like any major discipline accounting for millions of jobs, software development has many different methodologies and techniques, ranging from Agile development to Waterfall and Prototyping.

5 Things Musicians Can Teach Designers

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Oftentimes, the best inspiration comes when you look outside of your circle or industry. You see a fresh perspective and gain new insights for your own field. The reason this works is a lot of fields are creative.

So even though, say, music and design don’t have much in common on the surface, the creative parallels are pretty clear. And sure enough, there are 5 things musicians can teach designers.

Sure-Fire Ways to Get More Results in Less Time

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If you want to get more results in less time, you need to simplify and streamline your work. So how exactly do you do that? By listing and then doing only the most important tasks, being effective instead of just productive, and working only when you’re most creative.

Basically, you’re cutting out the fat and excess from your workflow. By doing so, you’ll spend less time working and actually get more important things done. More results in less time.

Clients, the Web and the Big Misconception

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Pretty ambiguous title isn’t it? That’s entirely intentional, because the topic of this particular article is something that a lot of web designers seem to hate talking about.

But, now that I’ve got you here hopefully you’ll stick around, so I’ll let the cat out of the bag (so to speak). In this article we’re going to be talking about Web 2.0. Don’t run away just yet!