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Design Trends and Collaboration with your Designer

Design Trends and Collaboration with your Designer

Introduction:

Graphic and web design play a pivotal role in shaping the visual identity of businesses and individuals alike. In this era of digital dominance, a skilled designer goes beyond creating aesthetically pleasing visuals – they craft a narrative, evoke emotions, and establish a brand’s unique voice. If you find yourself in the midst of a quest for a graphic and web designer in Los Angeles, this article is your guide to not only staying ahead of design trends but also ensuring a harmonious collaboration for maximum results.

The Dynamic Canvas of Design Trends:

Design trends are like the tides,

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Using the Right Social Media Language

Using the Right Social Media Language

I wrote a guest blog for proactivereport.com about the language / shorthand of social media and using the right language for each platform.

Here’s an excerpt:

Social media has become the elephant in the room when it comes to business nowadays. Either you’re using it effectively, or you may as well not be using it at all. Many young folk assume that they because they know how to use it for personal interaction with friends they can do it effectively for a brand and build a community of engaged and loyal customers. That’s a different kettle of fish entirely.

Social media today is about visual storytelling and each platform has developed its own shorthand,

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Eye of the beholder: Visual Content and your brand

Eye of the beholder: Visual Content and your brand

Social media has become a melting pot of white noise. For your brand to penetrate that noise and actually make any meaningful contact with your intended audience, you have to be ahead of the pack these days.

And being ahead of the pack, in no small way, means that your content needs to be visually engaging. Our news feeds and facebook walls are overflowing with what people did for lunch today or how tasty their grandma’s apple pie was or how much they love pizza and rosé wine, or how they “literally can’t even” – whatever that means, it’s become a battle for attention.

Visual content is no longer just a good idea,

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Facebook and your business

If you are in business today and are doing no social media at all – you need to reconsider your strategy. And if you are not active on Facebook then you also need to figure that out rapidly. Worldwide, there are over 1.23 billion monthly active Facebook users and that number is only increasing year by year.

Mobile is not the future – it is the NOW. Make sure your content and your website is mobile responsive and easily navigable on tablets. People buy off tablets! Hit them with the right content and you could generate a sale straight off the bat.

So, how do you connect to all these potential customers?

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Your social graph

This article published on proactivereport.com features a graphic which I created. Very interesting article and worth a read for anyone on the pulse of social media. – MF

Mapping Your Social Graph

As people become more connected and able to share information easily, reliance on friend’s opinion has only increased.   We’re social creatures.  We like to share and discuss our ideas and get feedback from people “just like us.”

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