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Wether you are a beginning designer or a seasoned veteran; keyboard shortcuts are a great way to save time and streamline your work process. Enjoy these shortcuts that we love to use at Pulse!

Topics: Creative, Team, Resources, Clients, Team Building, Learning, Web Design, Agency, Marketing, Tools, Relationships, Design Team, Images

SO, WHAT IS A DESIGN SPRINT?

“The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. Developed at GV,” (Google Ventures) “it’s a “greatest hits” of business strategy, innovation, behavior science, design thinking, and more—packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use.

Topics: Creative, Team, Resources, Clients, Team Building, Learning, Agency, Marketing, Tools, Relationships, Design Team, Images, Sprint, Process

It’s absolutely great being able to work in a creative industry, but it can be difficult to stay enthusiastic and inspired all the time. As a graphic designer, I am always expected to have creative ideas and I am often expected to come up with these creative ideas under tight deadlines.

Topics: Creative, Team, Resources, Clients, Team Building, Learning, Web Design, Agency, Marketing, Tools, Relationships, Design Team, Images

In many cases, the key to great design is to have access to great images. Content with relevant imagery is much more likely to obtain views than content without images because visuals are processed in the brain much quicker than text is.

Topics: Creative, Team, Resources, Clients, Team Building, Learning, Web Design, Agency, Marketing, Tools, Relationships, Design Team, Images

Although we are well into 2017 by now, it’s never too late to catch up on the trends that you should be aware of this year. You don’t always need to follow trends if they don’t work for a specific project or client, however, they will help guide you and show you where you should be looking for your inspiration throughout the year.

Topics: Typography, Creative, Team, Resources, Clients, Team Building, Learning, Agency, Marketing, Tools, Relationships, Vision, Design Team, Marketing Materials, Visual Trends, 2017

The first thing you should be doing before you even start sketching out ideas for logo concepts is identifying your client’s competitors. While researching competitor logos, you will begin to acquire a knowledge of trends and branding strategies in your client’s specific industry. 

Topics: Typography, branding, Creative, Team, Resources, Clients, Team Building, Learning, Web Design, Agency, Marketing, Tools, Relationships, Design Team, Website Optimization, Fonts, Typeface, Pairing Fonts

Are you stuck in creative block? These 6 tips may be just what you need to get past your block and back into your creative genius flow!

Topics: Inspiration, Creative, Team, Resources, Customer Experience, Learning, Agency, Marketing, Tools, Creative Team, Vision, Creativity

Typography is a part of our everyday lives whether you realize it or not. You see it in product packaging, street signs, billboards, and anywhere else where you may see words and numbers.

As a graphic designer, I have always been fascinated with the connection between typography and our emotional response to it.

Topics: Typography, branding, Creative, Team, Resources, Clients, Team Building, Learning, Web Design, Agency, Marketing, Tools, Relationships, Design Team, Website Optimization, Fonts, Typeface, Pairing Fonts