you want to take your design career seriously then you really want to add
these six tools into your workflow for managing time finances inspiration and
much much more they're going to allow your career to
fly to new highs but as one resource I've been using for the longest time and
that's mininet milano allows me to streamline my design process with mood
boards to-do lists inspiration and much much more it's great to have all of my
creativity my ideas and my concepts in one singular place online say to
streamline your design process and to learn more about MIDI notes stay tuned
to the very end today's video for welcome back to Satori graphics on
lockdown I've actually checked the reviews on every edition in today's
video I have made sure they are top-notch and I'm going to be useful for
you in your graphic design career
so within harvest you can actually manage your time effectively on separate
projects you can also set up things like invoices for billing clients and you can
even build project sub projects within a single project now there is a free
version which you can allow yourself as two projects maximum and only one person
available on that account one of the most appealing things about this
resource is that you can manage your time so you can keep track of how long
you spend on each project and if you work per hour and you charge per hour
this is really really useful because you can keep track of exactly how long
you're taking on each of your projects and then when it comes to building a
client for those hours you can do all of that within harvest now moving on to
some inspiration and this is a website I've never shown on this channel before
and it's actually design inspiration calm this website is kind of set up and
laid out like Pinterest but one of the really useful things I found on this
website is that the search bar doesn't only utilize key search terms it also
utilizes colors so you can whack in three different colors that you want to
have inspiration for and then you're going to be shown various different
projects utilizing those colors you can sign up with Google which is
really handy and quick to do the quality of work on there is really really high
fine for the most part and you can actually upload your own work as well
and save things to a library so if you want to get inspired and you want to
have that boost of creativity check out design inspiration com so the
third resource in today's list is another freebie and it's made by Google
and it's called Google sheets now kind of works like Excel Microsoft Excel in
terms of being a spreadsheet but it has a lot to offer for you and you're a
freelance or graphic design career from Google sheets you can do things like
invoicing you have calendars a to-do list and also a budget as well there's
quite a lot on there and you can access your own account on any kind of computer
and you can grant access to multiple people working on the same sheets which
is really good if you're part of a design team and again Google sheets is
free it's just another resource that's going to handle a lot of the backend
stuff of a career as a graphic designer
the next addition today is Adobe color and just wait a minute I know I've shown
this before on this channel but they've actually got some new features but if
you're not familiar with Adobe color I do suggest you check it out anyway
because you have access to many different color schemes and color
layouts which you can play around with in you know personalize to your own
projects and they also have some really good inspiration for what the colors
could be used for but the new features stems from an old one and the old
feature was that you couldn't upload an image and you could pick colors from
that image to use as a color scheme in your project but they've actually gone a
step further and you can upload an image with a gradient and you can pull a
gradient from the image
the fifth one is quite obvious to most people but I think Dropbox should be on
your list of resources as a graphic designer
Dropbox allows you to upload a huge amount of files you know into their
cloud and that means you don't take up space on your computer yeah as graphic
designers it is really important to have somewhere that we can upload images or
files and then send them to clients if they're too large all you need to do is
just upload your files then click the shareable link option and just post that
link to your client I couldn't do what I do if there wasn't such a service as
Dropbox out there and of course it is totally free and there is a prohibition
as well but if you have multiple different Google accounts or different
emails you can set up multiple different Dropbox accounts totally for free as a
graphic designer we obviously need to get paid for our work and to get paid we
need invoices invoice home is one of the best options out there for creating
invoices and sending them to your clients it is totally free up until the
threshold of a thousand dollars of invoicing per 30 days but once you go
past that it's only five dollars per month to use their service they also
store your past invoices on their website so if you need to invoice a
client again in the future just pull up the invoice which does save a lot of
time but yeah big thanks to million-eight for sponsoring today's
video I really do highly recommend it and I've been using it for nearly two
years now myself you can easily streamline your creative process from
start to finish on any project that you're working on but also it's very
easy to share your ideas and your projects with other clients or even work
colleagues so yeah do check out the links down below for more information on
milla nodes and start streamlining your creative design process in a more
efficient way today now obviously there are more resources that are going to be
helpful to you as a graphic designer in your career and so forth but these are
six of the ones that I think are really important and ones that I use on a
regular basis but let me know which ones do you feel are the most important and
what else would you add on this list until next time guys there's only fish
today peace