March 22, 2009

20 Essential Characteristics of a Good Designer

Do you think you have what it takes to be a great designer? Here are some characteristics that every great designer has:

  1. They create effective headers.
  2. They know their color functions.
  3. Designers are good at creating great layouts.
  4. Designers know how to pick color schemes.
  5. They haveĀ  a design process.
  6. They have a design playlist for those long days.
  7. Designers are good marketers and content writers
  8. If they aren’t good at marketing or writing, they know who is.
  9. Designers aren’t afraid to network.
  10. They know when to stop designing and call it finished.
  11. Designers know how to utilize free resources.
  12. Good designers understand the importance of doing market research.
  13. Designers use visuals to persuade emotion.
  14. They know how to build flexible websites.
  15. Designers know how to code.
  16. If they don’t know how to code, they find someone who does.
  17. They know how to sell not possibilities and concepts, not just pretty pictures.
  18. They know how to make pretty pictures.
  19. They know when to step out of the comfort zone and innovate.
  20. They subscribe to Diligent Design

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  • Firany

    Real designers obey the simple rule: the less stuff the better. Cluttered sites are not imppresive – what’s impressive is when someone manages to stuff all the important info on the site and still not make it cluttered.

  • web design miami

    One word for you: colors. This is the most basic thing that you can recognise a good web designer – if the site is colorful but still remains “calm”, neat and easy to look at it means that the web designer knows exactly what he’s doing.

  • Bdsurf

    “They know when to stop designing and call it finished.”

    I am always in confusion with it. I open fail to find out when I need to call it finished.
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