Remember the time when you introduced yourself to your partner’s parents? Remember how carefully you selected your outfit, haircut and practiced your smile, voice, and handshake? That’s because you know how important it was to get your first impression right. You have just one shot for that; a negative first impression takes a lot of […]
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Know Thy Budget!
You wouldn’t go into the house buying market or car buying market or hell, even a prom dress buying market, without having a clear budget in mind. So why do so many compaines and individuals who are seeking Design help throw out their RFPs just to simply see how much their proposed scope of work will […]
Don’t be Afraid to Ask for Things
Heyo! Welcome to the MENO Mistakes Blogcast! MENO mistakes is all about this one big question: If you could go back in time to the beginning of your career, what piece of advice would you give to your younger self? Today we have Erika Hall, co-founder and Director of Strategy at Mule Design Studio…which to us […]
4 Things to Forget if You Want to Write Good Copy
So you’ve checked the budget, and there’s no room for a copywriter. OK, we can work with that. But before you start, we need to squash some bad habits you probably have. To get rolling, I asked some colleagues for advice on how they’ve found success. As PR & brand copywriters, we’ve learned lots of […]
6.5 Tips to Staying Creative
Before getting started on a few practices that have helped us immensely keeping our creative juice going, let me clarify a bit what I mean by “Creative”: Creative = Anyone that has ever used their mind to solve a problem. That’s a lot of people… Creativity is not an attribute of a few magical designers or artists; creativity is […]
Suck at Writing
This month I celebrate my 1-year write-aversary! One year ago I challenged myself to start writing down my thoughts on design and life twice a month and though it hasn’t always been easy, I did it! Ok, maybe I slacked a couple of times because we had a baby and crazy workloads, but for the […]
Sprint Book Review
As a startup studio that works with other startups, we are lucky to get to work with passionate people that get excited about new ideas. The problem is that there are always too many ideas and it’s very difficult to pick which ones to explore and build next. Building something is a time and energy consuming […]
Less
In the past couple months, after the birth of my son Leonardo, life has changed. Leonardo has been a blessing, and I won’t bother you listing all the cute things he does… like hiccuping or smiling… but with this immense joys also came sleep deprivation, stress and an unusual amount of projects with tight deadlines. […]
Top 10 Productivity Tools for Designers
If you follow me on Twitter you have probably noticed I’m an app and workflow junky. I’m always on the lookout for good software that can help streamline my work and simplify my life. If a software takes me 30 min to learn and setup, cost me a few bucks but saves me 2 minutes a day I get a […]
The Sucky Questions
“You get what you ask for, ask a shitty question and you’ll get a pile of ?” Ignazio Laci How many times have you heard questions like: “Why do I have to do everything all the time?” “Why do we have only two designers here?” “Why do we have to do all these changes?” “When is […]