are you using mock-ups in a professional way or are you making amateur mistakes so in today's
video learn all about mock-ups from an amateur this pro standpoint and where i show you the top
tips for using mockups as a graphic designer with the way the design industry is going learning how
to prototype is a no-brainer instead of putting flat files in front of your team manager or client
imagine being able to hand them a prototype that's so good it feels like a real app or a website now
learn more about framer later in today's video so when you're working on a project for a client
or whoever when it comes to needing a mock-up what do you do exactly maybe you perform a quick google
search or maybe you know of a website that has some pretty cool downloads in terms of mockups
this quite frankly is the more amateur approach the professional way to go about this is to have
a multitude of mock-ups already downloaded and into relevant folders saved on your computer this
not only is being organized which is going to save you some time but also it means that you're sure
to find the right mock-up for your client on any given project so for example you might have one
single folder for your mock-ups and then inside that folder you have separate subfolders so things
like business card markups book cover mockups box mockups and so on if you just invest a couple of
hours one time only looking through websites and downloading a ream of good mockups you're not
going to need to endlessly search midway through a project ever again but what mock-ups should you be
using and why the amateur graphic designer doesn't think much about the message or the context of a
design project they might use a mock-up that looks cool to them or they might even just
use the first mock-up they find so i'm going to say this to you try and use mock-ups that relate
back to the client and also the message of the brief for example if you're designing something
for an organic kind of brand it would be a great idea to use mock-ups that appeal to that message
and that message is being organic now you might be asking how do you do that well it's pretty easy
for an organic brand it would be a great idea to include rustic or natural objects
because they're going to appeal to the client and position that design scenario will relate
in organic brands like to send a message of being natural and healthy living etc etc so it's all
about selling your idea to a client via a mock-up and a presentation and so making sure your design
is mocked up in a relevant situation is gonna help you achieve just that don't just simply
use a mock-up in your presentation and that's that you know the kind of case closed mentality
that is amateurish a professional designer knows that mock-ups are one part of the presentation
they need to be used in conjunction with other elements such as textual content showing fonts
and color palettes explaining your reasoning for making certain choices and just telling a story
in a straightforward way allow your mock-ups to flow seemingly through your presentation
and blend them into an overall delivery just don't make them the be b.o and end-all because that
shouldn't be the case here's something i've been guilty of and i bet you have two at some points
it can actually totally ruin your presentation and it's a simple amateurish mistake the mock-ups
you use need to be high resolution really really high quality resolution
using even slightly blurry mock-ups is a huge no-no you as a graphic designer your job is to
produce graphics and that is a tool that we use to deliver our message if you use a blurry or
low resolution imagery it just shows how you're not even competent enough to get that right and
it comes across as super amateurish it really is a quick way to lose your client or at least to drop
down a couple of points in their minds going back to the process of downloading hundreds of mockups
to save on your computer here is a golden bit of advice for you try looking for multi-view mock-ups
now what is a multi-view mock-up you might be asking well these are mock-ups that offer you
several different ways to display your work on one single download these are so powerful because you
can keep the style of the mock-up the same and you can present the work to your client in different
viewpoints or scenarios all from one downloads now i'm going to leave some of my links down
below for my favorite mock-up sites so you can start downloading free mock-ups saving them onto
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