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Oct 26, 2020

How to optimize your design portfolio to get hired—Advice from a design mentor

Stay Home, Stay Positive

Design Mentor Nick Cuda shares his top tips and advice for using your portfolio market yourself as a hireable design professional.

Oct 23, 2020

Dribbble's Pump Up Mix Vol. 2 — Mercedes Bazan

Looking for some new tunes to power your creativity? Welcome to Dribbble’s Pump-Up Mix — a monthly Q&A and curated playlist of songs highlighting your favorite designers and the music that influences their creative process.

Oct 22, 2020

5 useful typography tools you never knew you needed

Fun With Fonts

If you’re a designer who loves to find, collect, and experiment with fonts, add these incredibly useful typographic tools to your workflow!

Oct 21, 2020

What To Do If Your Design Work Is Stolen

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It happens to the best of us… Your designs get used without your permission. Now what? Learn how to protect your work from copyright infringement and how to get the infringing work taken down.

Oct 20, 2020

A step-by-step process for creating responsive logo designs

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Want to take your logo design expertise to the next level? Learn how to design responsive logos. In this guest post, go behind the scenes with the team at Unfold as they share their process for designing responsive logos based on a real client project.

Oct 19, 2020

6 tips to make the most out of your design mentor-mentee relationship

General Advice

Learn how to build a successful relationship with your design mentor that helps you achieve your goals and advance in your career.

Oct 16, 2020

Customize your iOS 14 home screen with these trendy icon sets

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Try these unique iOS 14 icon sets to give your home screen a whole new aesthetic! Each of these icon sets was created by a designer in the community.

Oct 15, 2020

Want a better remote work-life balance? Start doing these 7 things

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Learn how to set healthy boundaries between your work and your personal life while working remotely.

Oct 14, 2020

Fresh From Dribbble: A New & Improved Shot Experience

We’re excited to finally share with you a long-awaited update to our Shot Pages! Here’s some of the features we’ve rolled out across the platform—they’re geared to offer you the most practical, engaging, and work-focused Dribbble experience you’ve ever seen.

Oct 14, 2020

Sustainability by Design: 5 Ways to Greenify Your Packaging

Rethink — Food Box

Learn why it pays to make the switch to more sustainable packaging, plus five great options to help greenify your designs.

Oct 13, 2020

10 Incredibly Useful Tools For Remote Creative Teams (A Designer's Picks)

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A designer shares a list of her favorite online tools for remote creative teams.

Oct 12, 2020

5 Reasons Why Hiring A Designer Is Key To Your Business' Success

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Learn how working with a designer who understands your business goals and vision is so instrumental to your company’s success.

Oct 9, 2020

Get lost in these creative 404-page web illustrations

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Oops, that page is… awesome! Check out a roundup of 404-page illustrations that are too good to go unseen.

Oct 8, 2020

10 Excellent Free Online Graphic Design Courses

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Learn graphic design with these ten free online courses to level-up your skills and jumpstart your career.

Oct 6, 2020

New Hue, New You—How to Break the "Rules" of Color Psychology

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The key to color usage is that if it works, it’s correct—even if it breaks every color theory rule you’ve ever learned.

Oct 5, 2020

How to advance your UX design career from beginner to intermediate

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Learn how to take your UX design skills from beginner to intermediate and build a 5-10 year career plan to achieve your goals.

Oct 2, 2020

10 awesome Figma freebies you can download on Dribbble

Break In Between Work!

A collection of free Figma design assets created for designers by designers. Download free design templates, kits, icons, and more.

Oct 1, 2020

The 6 most common mistakes new freelancers make (& how to avoid them)

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Design experience isn’t all you need to be a successful freelancer. Here are a few common mistakes that new freelancers make. Knowing what they are from the outset will allow you to avoid them.

Sep 30, 2020

Taking a design course? Here's how to make the most out of your learning experience

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Learning design? Use these 6 tips to help maximize your design courses and master those new skills with confidence.

Sep 29, 2020

10 tax deductions every freelance designer needs to know

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Tax deductions are your number one defense against a huge tax bill. Here are ten must-know tax deductions every freelance designer should know about.