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Professional Practices

These articles focus on important issues designers face daily, from the pragmatic matters of management to the pursuit of design excellence and integrity. Sometimes designers' work can be magical, other times mundane; this is the place to seek best practices, share success stories, and address the challenges of our profession.

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Design 2.0
by Craig A Elimeliah
Jul 21, 2006(18)
Designers must once again take a leap of faith and prepare themselves for the new demands of the next generation of the web.

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Spec Can Be Beaten
by Blair Enns
Jul 21, 2005(2)
Understanding why clients ask for it is the first step to understanding the powerful alternatives to spec creative

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Design(ing) Network(ing)
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by Tom Klinkowstein
May 07, 2005(2)
Networks, magnified in importance by technology, have become an important factor in the life of the graphic designer.

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New Challenges from the Lowballers...and What to Do
by Leslie Burns-Dell'Acqua
Dec 15, 2004(38)
Creative industries are under threat from lowballers and companies that exploit them. Some suggestions to fight this trend.

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Design's Glass Ceiling
by Robert Jonathan Bennett
Jul 21, 2004(7)
Designer's in corporate America face an issue of being misunderstood. Can this problem be overcome?

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What Should Designers Study?
by Martha Retallick
Jul 14, 2004(4)
Think that studying advanced mathematics isn't relevant to a design career? Think again!