This may sound familiar: You’re gathered around a computer with the project manager and two developers, evaluating and critiquing the current design work. However, everybody seems to have a different idea about what the outcome should be. The developers have some unrealistic vision about how the design should look while the project manager can’t stop…
Launching New Features without Pissing People Off
Your alarm goes off. 8AM. Your coffee maker is already brewing, and you head to the kitchen to grab a cup. You’re bleary-eyed, but ready to start your day the way you always do—by checking Twitter to see what’s going on in your world. However, when you open the app on your phone, it looks…
The Basics to Building a Better Website: Planning for Success
You’ve decided that you need a website for your business. Maybe you are building one ‘from scratch’ or maybe you are updating an existing one. It’s easy to get excited about the beautiful photos, the great layout and the fancy features of your new site. This stuff is great to fun to think about. But…
6 Key Ways To Help Startups Be More Productive
One of the biggest challenges when running a startup is being productive while charging through the mountain of tasks ahead. Though it may seem overwhelming at first, establishing a set of routines and building some discipline is the best way to stay productive through it all. Rather than burning out halfway through your to-do list…
Launch Announcement: Pints and Pixels Meetup With Top Product Experts
Are you someone who has a lot of unique product ideas ready to market, but have few ways to network to discuss trends? It’s often discouraging to link up with people in the industry without having to spend a fortune attending a large product development conference. While these are still beneficial, it’s a lot more…
Building a Winner: The Anatomy of a Successful Product Team
There is a saying that has made rounds in many different arenas and many different industries. It generally goes something like, You are only as good as your last…, and you can fill in the blank. “You’re only as good as your last pass.” – Brett Favre “You’re only as good as your last picture.”…
10 Comprehensive Tips for Building a Successful Agency
Starting and running your own agency is a wonderful endeavor, but it’s by no means an automatic success. Even if you have all the right start-up resources, a great office location, and a strong initial team, profits and growth are not guaranteed. In fact, only a small percentage of young businesses make it passed the…
19 Attributes of a Total Badass Creative Director
Many designers aspire to be a creative director at some point in their career. At some point, you’ll come into contact with some great creative directors, some bad creative directors, and some atrocious creative directors. The truth is, it’s genuinely hard to make that transition from designer to creative director. Heck, what if you don’t…
The Definitive List: Books Every Tech Entrepreneur Should Read
Do you find yourself constantly wanting to learn more about business? How to grow them? How to build them? How to make them thrive without you? Get capital to fund your next big idea? As an entrepreneur, you have to be a business generalist in many ways. Not knowing a certain aspect of your business…
The Secret Sauce Behind Building A Comprehensive Brand Strategy
Do you consistently have a hard time building a framework for your customer’s brand strategy? A brand strategy can take many forms depending on the stage of the company and its challenges. For example, a brand strategy for a startup may include information about the brand identity and go-to-market strategy. Whereas, a mature company’s strategy…