Apple taught me:
Stand up for your work and show it with clarity and confidence.
Have an opinion. Your POV, talent and style matters and is wanted and needed in the marketplace.
Sweat and present details. Lean on taste + simplicity.
Be easy to work with.
Daughter really pushed through yal!
#naileditathome
had a major Zoom password fail and
@fever_us
never solved the issue
She did on her own could you give her a round of applause 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Build your new brand in a day:
Draw your logo with your finger using
@Procreate
Promote your brand using
@Sendinblue
Publish your website with
@onuniverse
Follow up with customers on
@ConvertKit
Happy Hustling 📲
Defending design work isn’t disrespectful.
It’s welcomed. Supporting your design decisions with content, examples and relevant information is a good thing. You aren’t bought on to only say yes but for your style and (thought) process.
Design. Present. Support. Defend. Refine.
A little wellness can go a long way
@HiWoebot
for quick digital therapy
@talkspace
to talk to a therapist
@withjour
beautiful journaling
@InsightTimer
for meditation
@Headspace
meditation + exercise (free for ppl in LA)
Self care is some of the best care
Just sent a new potential client a qualifying form to ensure they meet requirements for us to work together.
Tools:
Shopify + Typeform
Thanks:
@jackbutcher
for the video on YouTube reminding me to send these out 📝
For every successful, happy, vacay 3/4 pose selfie photo on the gram, there is a text thread discussing the exact opposite feelings of pitfalls, self doubt and failures of entrepreneurship at the same damn time.
Just. Built. It.
Fear, imposter syndrome, embarrassment are all standard side effects of publishing your products and ideas.
But the same goes for validation, wins, recognition, increased self esteem, profits and pieces in the portfolio. Build it.
Set up your side hustle using just a few apps and your iPhone.
Use your downtime to turn up your income.
✅PDF's
✅Videos
✅Webinars
✅Worksheets
Cost you less than a round during happy hour.
Fathers Day is here and if you wanna get me something because you know I’m out here with these girls on the daily, gift me that Build Once Sell Twice by
@jackbutcher
Content hack:
Write a blog post (for Medium)
Design that blog post as a carousel (for IG)
Record a video explanation of that post
(for IG / Tik Tok / Fleets)
Record the audio (at the same time as the video) for your podcast
♻️ 📝 🚀
@Yannick_Veys
Make the decision to be who you want to be every second of the day, stay in integrity with that decision by living in accordance to the vision.
I put them pounds on during Quarantine
Saw an ad while scrolling on IG
Signed up for
@futurefitapp
got a nice welcome message from my coach
Got on a plan, dropped 10lbs now working on tone!
Wanna try it for yourself? Got a free month for you. DM’s are open 🤝
Your work deserves a stage to shine.
Not just in your organized Figma files but in decks and video overviews. Prototyping ideas, polishing landing pages, giving the design space to breathe as well as limited, intentional motion can work wonders.
Speak slowly and show off.
One of my fav apps.
@Letsjumprope
Teach people a new skill, export it to whatever social platform you want. It puts some jazzy music in the background and animates the text. Happy teaching 📲
@dvassallo
@jspector
@gumroad
I’m learning that lesson now. The landing pages, pop ups, chat bots. I’ve done them all.
Just today I took my pretty / formatted content off my course platform and put it in a Google Doc with a webinar and put them up on Gumroad.
Wish me luck!
Creative is clutch in your design yet clear copy is key.
Putting together a strong product page or presentation stresses the need for carefully written words. If pixels are your specialty and words not so much, Relume Ipsum could be a helpful tool.
Put the copy to work.
Never enter a design critique unprepared again.
One option to consider is the 3 step presentation setup.
Figma
Loom
Keynote
Keep a public ready Figma file, clean, labeled and organized to share. Record a design Loom overview. Upload work to Keynote.
Stay presentation ready.
Start over as many times as needed.
The Marathon Continues.
If you fail or lose, you’ve simply received helpful data.
Take a break, return refreshed ready for action operating from a place of confidence.
You’re already winning.
Chai tea and Figma for breakfast
Scheduled the social posts with
#LaterMedia
Checking the
#Shopify
store analytics
Sneaking in rap music with the curses before the children wake up
Testing an idea:
1 - Landing page designed with
@NotionHQ
2 - Payment by
@stripe
3 - Automation
@gmail
sent with
@zapier
4 - A low priced sheet to help you startup on a Saturday
Obsess over the details but ditch procrastination by way of perfectionism.
The story, the journey, is as important as the end result.
Sharing your process, errors, products and progress publicly, can bridge the gap between a dream and a reality.
@WolfgangBremer
Thanks for the 8 hours of interviews and design challenges, we just wanted to tell you we liked talking to you and that we have paused the role
I’m in a Discord group
I love it
The person running it only charges $25 a month - I’m like cool
I was like, why he over deliver on this channel for $25 a month?
I saw he had 1000 members
I did the math
When my wife and I were about to have our second child, we ran into a friend who just had hers and had a 🔥 stroller
She said it was gifted to her. I was like what?! 🤯
Fast forward, I wrote a
#GoogleDoc
about me. Sent it out to brands and got a free 🔥 stroller
Want the doc?
New design presentation / feedback loop:
Page design in Framer. Overview in Screen Studio. Feedback, reactions and reply all in Loom. The timestamp reply function in Loom is so cool.
This gives less email, slack and texts + prototype all in one.
Whats your work share style?
Saturday Side Hustle Selling:
Ideas💡
You good at writing? Pop open a Google doc teach what your great at, post it on
#Gumroad
Nice on video? Record yourself teaching, record the
#Zoom
vid and sell it on
#Squarespace
Nice talking? Consult people on
@whereby
Lil extra $ ✊🏾
Still hype to be part of HUGE
I remember years ago getting a stone cold NO when trying to work with them
I remember getting another big fat NO when trying to work with them just under a month ago - but then offered me a spot on a Google campaign 🎉
Call me old fashioned but I still end my work share videos and Linear updates with:
“Thank you”
Giving people gratitude for their attention and feedback is always a solid move.
Really enjoying
@video_ask
by
@typeform
Being able to send a video question / request and then being able to receive a video / audio / text reply is amazing
Using those answers as testimonials to ensure trust is a huge help 🙏🏾
Morning routine app vibes:
@Headspace
to clear the mind
@withjour
for journaling
@asana
for the to do list
@SuperPhone
to message your customers
🛌 go back to bed while you can before them city open back all the way up 😴
For my introverts:
Avoid the call, FaceTime and Zoom
Include a screen recording of your design, proposal, deck or assignment and talk the person through it using
@loom
No need for a call ☎️
Email it over and close the laptop 💻
Published over perfect.
Preparation is the underrated marker of getting closer to big goals. Not the perfect project or portfolio but the process presented w/ creative clarity.
Being ready for the dream job, partner, role or project is better than the regret of not being ready.
There is so much information in the onboarding documents yet often the job or project starts without all of the helpful content the team member could benefit from — where there’s a void there’s a potential product to launch.
What an iPhone web designer / Art Director taught me about smart simple design practices.
He was on the team for years and made so many things seem effortless. Here's what I learned:
Copy whats worked before and improve.
Use and schedule PTO days.
Keep it simple.
Deliver.
#30DaysofThreads
- Day 7/30
You can build a million dollar biz with 10 visitors to your website per day if you're obsessive about conversions.
In today's TedTalk I'll reveal some of the strategies I used to get there from the standpoint of one customer: Rosa!
A thread!👇🏽
Idea: Make merch for these Verzuz matches
Design your tees, mugs, posters and hats using
#Over
Upload those designs to
#Printify
They will print, pack and ship your orders and send them to your customers
Connect Printify to your
#Etsy
store
Done ✅
Designers and creators what are we reading this weekend?
I've found a sometimes instant connection between books read and desired outcomes realized.
Some of my favs:
Your idea doesn't have to be perfect.
Your page doesn't have to be perfect.
You product doesn't have to be perfect.
Publish your imperfect projects, present them with pride, improve them, relaunch them.
@PDXStephenG
@FastCompany
Appreciate how you shined light and switched the positioning of this article in tandem with how life goes for those looking to transform their future through big dreams and goals which leads to many hurdles and constant work for elevation
#respek