Marc Hemeon and Joel Beukelman of Design Inc. teamed up at Creative South 2017 in Columbus, Georgia to share tips for designers on a wide variety of topics from craft and work-life balance to the business  of design. Go to designinc.com/hustle and start your project today. If you’re a designer and want to join, you can apply at designinc.com/apply.

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Life Lessons
for Designers70 brought to you by Marc & Joel from Design Inc.

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Marc Joel
Founder, CEO | @hemeon Head of Design | @_bklmn

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Design Inc. helps
designers find work

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Craft1

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Sketch with big markers

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Show more than images
in your portfolio

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Don’t worry
about your title

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Its okay to design for free
I do it too

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Curiosity > Tools

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If your design is
what you imagined…
it’s probably wrong

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No 1 designs anything

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If you do something,
something will happen

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Enjoy the journey.
Shipping is a marathon.

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Quality is your problem

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Beautiful because you care

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Icons with text are easier to
understand than icons alone

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Save time, use patterns

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Design in black and white
and add color later

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Pixel perfect design is dead

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Use real content
not lorum ipsum

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Try it in German

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You are not Aaron Draplin.
find your own Futura Bold

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Design is not Art

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Try it in Russian

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Use what you make

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Say people, not users

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Punch above
your weight class

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Design one for the
stakeholder and one for you

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Done is better than perfect

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Cocoapotrace

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Life2

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Get a hobby kids

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Saying NO is a strength

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Distraction is the enemy

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I R L

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Spend time like money

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Comparison kills

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Don’t be defined
by your work

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Always talk to the
person next to you

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8 Work - 8 Rest - 8 You

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Sharing is caring

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Sidework leads = next job

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Share your contact info

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Effort trumps talent

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Resentment causes burnout

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Be impeccable
with your word

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Give Props

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Show up

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Stop saying sorry

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Stop using this, it, that

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Stop using “you know”
HT @saturday

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Stop saying
Um, I think, I feel and So

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Biz3

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Contribute more, take less

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Yes & …

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Do what you say.

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Stop saying IMO

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Design like a Scientist

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Embrace constraints

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Success =
80% Sell, 20% Design

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Empathy > Apathy

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Your Bias is Bullsh!t

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If it's not a "Hell Yes”,
its a no.

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15 minute meetings

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Everyone's job is hard

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Market rate =
the average of your 3 friends

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Ideas are cheap

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Write your story

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Invoice every two weeks

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Say thank you,
how else can I help?

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Follow up

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One big thing each day

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Drink water

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Marc Joel
joel@designinc.com
@_bklmn
bkl.mn
youtube.com/bklmn
marc@designinc.com
@hemeon
https://medium.com/@hemeon
hemeon.com