Creative professionals often find themselves in the middle of everything and everyone. Therefore, you should prepare yourself to convince a room full of people that your design is right. 

Consensus decision making is a creative and dynamic way of reaching an agreement between all members of a group. Instead of simply voting for an item and having the majority of the group getting their way, a group using consensus is committed to finding solutions that everyone actively supports, or at least can live with. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

In this episode John D Saunders shares his journey as a Digital Marketing Strategist with over a decade of experience helping SMBs, non-profits and Fortune 500 companies find success through online marketing. How he’s launched over 250+ websites for small & medium businesses WITHOUT Touching code at his award-winning boutique agency, 5four. In addition to how he’s been able to help teach over 3,000 students online & teach entrepreneurs in his online course “THE WEB DESIGN ACCELERATOR”, how to launch a profitable web design agency from anywhere. In just the past 2 years he’s built and sold 3 E-commerce businesses from scratch And runs one of the top financial literacy blogs for urban millennials, BLACK WALLET, that reaches over 1MILLION uniques visitors. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

Jacob Cass shares with us how he’s built his business from the ground up, worked with brands such as NINTENDO, NIKE, Red Bull, Disney, Powerade, VitaminWater and how he and you can build a passive income stream as a creative. • Find Jacob Cass On Instagram: https://instagram.com/justcreative. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

Ryan Hayward shares with us how he built his start up PitchProof in 3 days, created FrontRow 2019, one of the largest online design conference for designers, and shares with us a little bit behind the curtain how he does it all. 🔥Ryan’s Social Media: ✅Instagram: - Instagram.com/usepitchproof - Instagram.com/theryanhayward. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

Peter Smart Head of Product at Fantasy.co shares with us: 1. His creative journey to Head of Product @ Fantasy & his challenges 2. How to find a mentor to excel 3. Why Experience will always beat theory 4. How to seek & take hold of job opportunities 5. How being open to change can open a lot of doors in your career 6. The power of being a “curious idiot” ✅ Peter Smarts Amazing talk at the Awwwards Conference: https://youtu.be/AonZeJFsaxc. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

Join us in this amazing breakdown of what you missed at this years Adobe MAX. ★ Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/XEsKbd9 ★

Empathy is the ability to fully understand, mirror, then share another person's expressions, needs, and motivations. In UX, empathy enables us to understand not only our users' immediate frustrations, but also their hopes, fears, abilities, limitations, reasoning, and goals. 

The 3 Whats of User Perspective

A good design communicates 3 things:

1) What is this?

2) What is the benefit for the user?

3) What should they do next?

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Adam Romano is a Creative Director at Jam3 in Toronto Canada. - He and his team have the pleasure of working with brands such as Facebook, Google, eBay, Adidas, Postmates. Today, Adam shares his story of becoming creative, his struggles, challenges and how he overcame them, to be where he is today. - Join us in this amazing story of hustle from Adam Romano, a college drop and self-taught designer turned creative director at Jam3. 

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Unsung heroes: the best under the radar apps you should check out

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