The uncomfortable truth: while you’re perfecting your portfolio, other designers are building relationships through content. Every week you stay quiet is another week potential clients discover someone else.

Ability to simplify the complex is an attribute many designers spruik but in reality have we done the opposite and complicated our industry to the point of confusing clients?

Business strategists suggest we ignore competitors and only worry about what we can control. We would argue the opposite – the more we know, the better.

There’s not long to go … your choice, you can slide into the end of the year or you can pull up your big girl pants and sprint to the finishing line.

The industry we have is the one we’ve collectively built. But here’s the thing: when it comes to knowledge sharing in Australian design, we’re walking past a lot of low standards.

Clients comment on colours and fonts because that’s what they can see. The strategy, psychology, and user research? That’s invisible to them. Here’s how to change that conversation.

Is persuasion a fundamental skills to be good at new business? No, it’s actually really hard to change behaviour and using just persuasion isn’t the answer…

Four expat designers in Berlin chose challenge over comfort. Their stories reveal how changing environment, not skills, can transform creative careers.

Designers fear specialisation will limit their skills. Amsterdam’s canal museum proves the opposite — true specialisation expands capabilities.

Amsterdam design practitioners have found technical skills alone won’t sustain careers. It’s self-mastery and strategic thinking separate thriving designers.

We know design makes a difference, but sheeesh we also know it’s a struggle to prove it. Here’s a simple framework to follow to run effective design experiments.

We combine travel with work and this year we’re heading to Europe. We work while holidaying, meeting with like-minded designers to investigate what’s happening in design businesses in other parts of the world.