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Domestika

Productivity for designers: create an efficient workflow

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Overview

Explore a set of customized tools to organize your studio and manage any design request efficiently, from first contact to delivery
  • Introduction
  • Working Full Time as a Freelance Graphic Designer
  • From Brief to Delivery: How to Manage One Project
  • Optimizing Processes to Become a Studio
  • Final project
Working on our own means carrying out multiple projects at once. The key is to reduce time wastage, develop efficient procedures and, above all, plan profitable collaborations with clients and colleagues. Mijal Zagier is a graphic designer who worked as an in-house creative director for multiple agencies before making the jump to freelance. Since then, she has worked across the globe in Argentina, USA, India, and Israel, and received accolades including Shutterstock’s Pixels of Fury.

In this online course, she teaches you her method for optimizing your process and enjoying all the advantages of becoming a freelancer. Learn how to efficiently manage a design request from first contact to delivery, and maximize your workflow every step of the way. Don’t work harder; work smarter. Manage your time and focus your energy on your creativity!

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • What are the Challenges of Independent Design Work
  • Managing One Project vs. Managing Multiple Projects in Tandem
  • Master Workflow
  • Receiving a Brief vs. Creating a Requirement Form 1
  • Receiving a Brief vs. Creating a Requirement Form 2
  • Research and Mood Board
  • Drafting the Presentations
  • Taking Feedback
  • Considerations before Taking on New Projects 1
  • Considerations before Taking on New Projects 2
  • How to Only Get Contacted by Relevant Clients
  • Finding Usable Resources and Creating Templates
  • Task and Time Management
  • Once the Projects Are Done
  • Productivity for designers: create an efficient workflow

Taught by

Mijal Zagier

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