Comments on: 50 Ways to Become a Better Designer

By: Fuad Ahasan Chowdhury

Fuad Ahasan Chowdhury — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:52:11 +0000

Thanks a lot for these type of great pathways.. great share.. these tips will help a lot for newbies to pros..

Cheers
Fuad
clippingimages.com

By: skipZero

skipZero — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:15:27 +0000

Great list! Love the title for 44! Toast is yummy!

By: peter

peter — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:36:43 +0000

i'm printing this out as we speak..

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:27:29 +0000

Great post, Thank you for the tips!!!!

By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:01:50 +0000

Great list. Have to add: challenge the brief. Ask yourself, why should the customer care? How will it make their life better/faster/more cost-effective, etc. If you don't feel great about the answers to these questions its quite possible that the brief is, well, incomplete at best and pure crap at worst. Be ready to challenge the author in an appropriate 'it's all about the customer' spirit.

By: Internet Marketing, Web Development, BPO Service

Internet Marketing, Web Development, BPO Service — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:12:49 +0000

I am not actually a designer but business promoter. Even then this article helped me a lot to get our business website enhanced.

By: James

James — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:27:56 +0000

Made a few more little updates...

@JOKR I listed Smashing Magazine's forums as an update as the previous list of forums was out of date - most of my old favourites have since ceased to exist. Smashing Magazine's forums are growing, but as you said, they still have a way to go. So I've added GDF in there for good measure.

@Michael loose and lose - silly mistake, and now fixed. Thanks for pointing it out.

By: jokr

jokr — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:40:18 +0000

A really nice and elaborate article . . .great job! I didn't have time to read it all but looking over it there is one thing that caught my attention:
#4 Join a forum. -> Smashing Magazine Forums (Probably my favourite) ... I find the smashing forum as a very young and pretty inexperienced community in great need of professional moderation ...
I have no doubt that this will grow up to be a very representative forum in the design world . . .but at this time I have to say it's NOT even worth mentioning.

By: fullFx

fullFx — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:58:42 +0000

I am not a full time designer. But taking a shower has helped me big time in the past

-- fullFx

By: Gastón Rojas

Gastón Rojas — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:42:36 +0000

Excelentes tips!
Felicitaciones desde Argentina-