{"id":5453,"date":"2013-01-21T10:51:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T10:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/?p=5453"},"modified":"2013-01-21T10:51:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T10:51:39","slug":"18-useful-articles-to-improve-your-design-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/18-useful-articles-to-improve-your-design-process\/","title":{"rendered":"18 useful articles to improve your design process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <i>We&#8217;re sponsoring this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/2013.newadventuresconf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Adventures conference<\/a>, and with a nod to the speakers&#8217; topics, we&#8217;ve put together a mini-series of posts aimed at web designers. Enjoy!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Improving your design process makes all the difference to your efficiency, your clients&#8217; happiness, and your own motivation. The more time you can save with design shortcuts the better, so we&#8217;ve dug out some of the best resources on the web to help you saving time creating websites.<\/p>\n<h4>Why Prototyping is Essential to Your Design Process<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Things we conceptualize in our heads that seem awesome regularly turn out to be terrible ideas when we put them in a more concrete, visual medium such as a piece of paper or a computer screen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webdesignerdepot.com\/2012\/12\/logo-land-a-terrain-of-twists-and-turns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Logo land: a terrain of twists and turns<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;At the outset, the job is investigative; with detective hats on, the creative team researches, asks questions, analyzes the target audience, scrutinizes competitors, and brainstorms. The process then moves from factual to conceptual, with creative inspiration coming from any number of sources until it finds its way to paper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webdesignerdepot.com\/2012\/12\/logo-land-a-terrain-of-twists-and-turns\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow2.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Designing A Winning Navigation Menu: Ideas And Inspirations<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;It is better to use simple, obvious and terms that are easy to figure out than to keep to industry-only terms for your navigation menu. 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As a designer, your aim should be to provide the best tool for most of your users, most of the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webdesignerdepot.com\/2012\/12\/4-tricks-for-designing-data-heavy-applications\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow4.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow4\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Top 10 Must Have iPad Apps for Logo Design<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;The job is tough undoubtedly and to make the job easier a bit various logo design apps have come up to the world of logo designers to help them work whenever and wherever they want in a more effective manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow5.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow5\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/tympanus.net\/codrops\/2012\/10\/23\/basic-ready-to-use-css-styles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Basic Ready-to-Use CSS Styles<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;When you\u2019re creating a website or an application from scratch, you may need a collection of patterns helping you building thing up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tympanus.net\/codrops\/2012\/10\/23\/basic-ready-to-use-css-styles\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow6.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webdesignerdepot.com\/2012\/09\/how-to-deliver-the-perfect-design\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to deliver the perfect design<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Some of us make our living off doing client work and accepting new projects. While all of us are different in the amount of work we can do and handle, it\u2019s no secret that we don\u2019t want to spend lots of unnecessary time stuck doing revisions and trying different designs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webdesignerdepot.com\/2012\/09\/how-to-deliver-the-perfect-design\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow7.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow7\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2011\/05\/04\/useful-photoshop-tools-and-techniques-for-your-workflow\/\" target=\"_blank\">Useful Photoshop Tools and Techniques For Your Workflow<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Photoshop is an extremely powerful application for photo processing and image manipulation, and we can make it even more powerful by using handy tools, actions, plugins and templates to save time for solving mundane regular tasks. The better our professional tool set is, the more time we can spend to focus on the actual design process rather than the tool we are using to implement it on screen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2011\/05\/04\/useful-photoshop-tools-and-techniques-for-your-workflow\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow8.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow8\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2012\/06\/developing-a-design-workflow-in-adobe-fireworks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Developing a Design Workflow in Adobe Fireworks<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;with so many choices, how do we determine the right tool to move from concept to functional design?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2012\/06\/developing-a-design-workflow-in-adobe-fireworks\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow9.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow9\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/designshack.net\/articles\/software\/10-ways-photoshop-actions-can-improve-your-workflow\/\" target=\"_blank\">10 Ways Photoshop Actions Can Improve Your Workflow<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Photoshop actions are an extremely easy way to automate all of the mundane daily tasks that have made their way into your design workflow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/designshack.net\/articles\/software\/10-ways-photoshop-actions-can-improve-your-workflow\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow10.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/alexanderwwhite.wordpress.com\/designer\/type-design\/five-steps-to-improve-your-design-process\/\" target=\"_blank\">Five Steps to Improve Your Design Process<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Design is often thought of as an artistic, intuitive activity. It isn\u2019t really that at all \u2013 at least few <i>targets<\/i> think of it that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alexanderwwhite.wordpress.com\/designer\/type-design\/five-steps-to-improve-your-design-process\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow11.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow11\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/improve-design-sign-off-process\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Tips to Improve Your Design Sign-Off Process<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, everyone has a different opinion about what \u201cgood design\u201d actually is. This is a problem if you\u2019re creating products, software, graphics or other media for a client. Your design may need to be agreed by multiple people all with their own notions and prejudices about how the product should look, feel and work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/improve-design-sign-off-process\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow12.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow12\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.caplin.com\/2012\/11\/09\/our-responsive-web-design-workflow-for-caplin-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Our responsive web design workflow &#8211; caplin.com<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;What we know about our users viewport resolution this month my be vary different to what we find out next month. Responsive websites should be flexible and perhaps a bit freeform \u2013 but so should the design process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.caplin.com\/2012\/11\/09\/our-responsive-web-design-workflow-for-caplin-com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow13.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow13\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/spyrestudios.com\/5-ways-to-streamline-your-web-design-workflow\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Ways To Streamline Your Web Design Workflow<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;As a freelance designer, my income greatly depends on my ability to produce quality work, and if I can do that even slightly faster than the other guy, I will not only have happy clients, but returning customers. In this post I\u2019d like to share some of the things I\u2019ve learned throughout the years that I use or do on a daily basis to help me with my workflow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spyrestudios.com\/5-ways-to-streamline-your-web-design-workflow\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow14.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow14\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/gawno.com\/2009\/07\/6-web-design-workflows\/\" target=\"_blank\">6 Web Design Workflows That Work<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>A collection of great articles on proven web design workflows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gawno.com\/2009\/07\/6-web-design-workflows\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow15.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/24ways.org\/2010\/optimize-your-web-design-workflow\/\" target=\"_blank\">Optimise your web design workflow<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m not sure about you, but I still favour using Photoshop to create my designs for the web. I agree that this application, even with its never-ending feature set, is not the perfect environment to design websites in. The ideal application doesn\u2019t exist yet, however, so until it does it\u2019s maybe not such a bad idea to investigate ways to optimize our workflow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/24ways.org\/2010\/optimize-your-web-design-workflow\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow16.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow16\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/foobartel\/responsive-web-design-workflows-for-todays-web-uxmen-at-the-hive-hong-kong\" target=\"_blank\">Responsive web design workflows for today&#8217;s web<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;It is the nature of the web to be flexible, and it should be our role as designers and developers to embrace this. \u2013 John Allsopp&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/foobartel\/responsive-web-design-workflows-for-todays-web-uxmen-at-the-hive-hong-kong\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/improve-your-design-workflow17.png\" alt=\"improve-your-design-workflow17\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/viljamis.com\/2012\/responsive-workflow\/\" target=\"_blank\">Responsive workflow<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;About three or four years ago\u2014when I mostly did just static width sites\u2014my projects went through the different phases in the order illustrated below, which looks like a typical waterfall process. 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