Author: Bogdan Rancea

Being a designer in the 21st century is a lot tougher than it was in earlier times. In less than 20 years we've seen our industry evolve rapidly and for the most part detrimentally. Once, smaller design studios held virtual regional monopolies to meet the needs of local small businesses, with larger businesses having their needs met by national design superstars. Today we all compete in a global marketplace populated by a mix of agencies, freelancers, and freelancers pretending to be agencies.

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More than a few of the fonts we see in logos, banners and headings, and on posters, look as if they've been worked over with a sander. Sharp edges have been replaced by slightly rounded ones, and in some instances, the edges have been rounded off to the extreme. Rounded fonts are not only popular; they have become ubiquitous.

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Suppose for a moment that you want to get your house painted. You call a painter and he comes over to your house. Imagine his surprise to discover that you've called three other painters to the same job.

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One of the sad little truths about the web development game is that good clients are extremely rare. Some clients have this amazing ability to transform from Jekyll to Hyde without pausing for breath, and the rest of them—pretty much the majority—are simply just jerks. Incidentally, for any of my clients who are reading this, you're one of the good ones, of course.

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It doesn't matter whether you run a website with ecommerce functionality, or a simple business website with some of your services and contact information listed on there. The whole goal of a website is to use the platform for converting regular folks into paying customers.

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