How to stay inspired as a Web Designer
It is not easy to be a web designer. There may be times when your motivation level may be down as much time is surrounded by your work. Your creativity halt for some time. Every designer loses inspiration quite frequently and simply hopeless about what you do.
what to do in such a situation? How to cope up with boredom and find inspiration to your work?
In this article, we will focus on How you can be creative for long and what can be done to recover your inspiration. Let’s learn to reignite passion and get inspired.
- Try something new: New tools and techniques or Experiment with new software
On the web there is always something interesting and creative, which we never had done it. Doing the same thing again and again can be demotivating where you feel like to give up. so, try and experiment with new tools that can suit to your project. Try new techniques and software but adding such new thing to your repertoire, which you never tried in the past in your project you play something challenging. This challenge will not only create interest in your work and project but also will give you experience for further and endeavors.
- Work with new designers or make an effort to work with front end developers:
Maybe the new interaction that’d developer wants to try or a designer who don’t want project to be simple as you are used to do fulsome working with new designers and developers pushes you to try new thing. New people best drive us to do our best work because you are exposed to attempt new thing. Every place where who work in the web industry will be working alongside others Roma so it’s always well to get that practice and see things from new perspective, which may give you creative spark.
- bookmark the places to get inspire and to feed your creativity
there are some outstanding places to be bookmarked so that you can jump straight to it using the link, such as
-Dribble
-Awwwards
-Pinterest
-FWA
-Codrop
Dribble: It is a classic choice. it is one of the invaluable so list for UI inspiration. Here one can find almost everything right from colors, layout two animations.
Awwwards: What would be better platform to find world’s best web design works? These websites are majorly built on fancy technologies. It uses intricate interaction which are loved by designers.
Codrops: It is directed at front end developer. They have usually striking designs along with tutorial, which makes it easy to implement.
Uh not creative and great ideas come from other sources also that may not be entirely visual for example:
Medium: It contains great articles about many topics. It contained a stories new technology thought of leaders from Web like Ran Segall, Pablo Stanley. Reading it will definitely feed your creativity
Podcasts: Alongside reading articles you can enjoy listening to quality podcasts to inspire your work.
- User Defender Podcasts: Hosted by Jason Ogle
- Big Web Show: it has interviews of web design industry leaders.
- Design Blind date: Ran Segall, the most inspiring web designer shares his phone insight regarding the web design industry.
Web design magazines: once in a while go shopping and purchase some inspiring web design magazines if you love reading through the books and magazines
Social media: Talented designers social media Accounts you can follow for inspiration. When you scroll your social media account like Instagram you will you will get a mix of some best designer work and inspiration.
Some accounts of Web designers on Instagram are –
– Seb Lester – Auron Draplin
– Allan Peters -Good type
- Be a part of web designer communities and have meet-ups:
There are plenty of designer communities online which you can join and that will keep you up with some of the latest and hottest strain in web design. You can also further accompany each other to meetups even can attend conferences and events. Conferences are excellent environment where you get recharged. At least one of the speakers will provide you a new perspective on the web designing you will get to know new scale to adopt in your own work process. Conference will provide time for fun and you will relax yourself conference is a package of knowledge and holiday together. Some events and conferences you might find attending are,
Future of Web design
Build
TED
Tech Crunch Disrupt
If you feel conferences are expensive then meet up are something cheaper and instead of paying expenses for conferences you can just spend evening or have discussions with like-minded people of your web designing community.
6.Take a Break:
The work for web designer, web developers is stressful. We are exposed to Internet and computer/laptop Screen more than any other profession. Our work is always within our arms reach. We may get bored with the things we do at some point, get demotivated, so take a break from your work spend holidays as you will enjoy yourself. This will help you to come back refreshed. You will provide yourself creativity space to explore with more enthusiasm. Spending holiday at your favorite location or just spending a lazy day at home and enjoying it fullest will. Fill you with energy for all the new challenges.
- Reconnect with larger interest:
When you feel uninspired to work or to work on certain project, try finding a way to regain your motivation. Remember your ambition and passion, what was that thing which brought you to design or work for the respective project or company.
You can even regain your motivation for whom you are designing, casual research of your user is sometime excellent way to regain motivation. Research your competitors mainly the one which are better than you, this will help you to work better.
Always be ready to learn new tools and technologies. Do participate in the seminar and training which will eventually enhance your abilities. Feeling of being peaked in profession and creativity will be the major drawback you will head yourself to. Always keep in mind, in learning stage which will eventually help you to grow. Web design is evolving at a light- fast pace. Web design learning process will increase your potential in creativity and your web projects.
