designskills

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Skills (9)

• art-direction

  Turn the creative direction into the brand's actual imagery — photography, illustration, iconography, and pattern & texture, and how they combine. Implies each style from the brand strategy, finds real reference images on the web that fit the mood, writes a spec tight enough that two people would co

• brand-strategy

  Coach a client or team through defining a brand's visual identity from scratch — what it should make people feel, the muses it steals from, the distinct creative concepts, and the latitude it's allowed to flex within. Use before any creative direction, logo, or application work, or when the user men

• brand

  The entry point for any brand work. Gathers the brand's existing assets itself from just a URL (crawling the site, following its links to social and press) — or, for a brand that doesn't exist yet, starts from the name and the idea — diagnoses how much should change, routes to the right path, and ge

• collateral-design

  Apply a brand's defined visual system to any fixed-format piece that isn't a website — decks and presentations, one-pagers and sales sheets, social posts and graphics, blog/OG thumbnails, business cards, brochures, flyers, posters, banners, billboards, and paid ads. Use when the user mentions 'desig

• creative-direction

  Translate a brand's strategy — its emotional target and muses — into the concrete visual system: color, typography, composition, pattern & texture, iconography, illustration, and photography, as one coherent language. Use after brand-strategy and before logo or application work, or when the user men

• design-principles

  The universal principles behind strong visual design — across logos, brand identity, collateral, and web. Use at the start of any design work, when a design feels off but you can't name why, when judging whether a piece earns its choices, or when a brand needs to flex without breaking. Other design

• logo-design

  Design or evaluate a logo against the SAD bar — Simple, Appropriate, Distinct — always judged in context. Use when designing a new mark, refining one, or assessing whether an existing logo is any good. Triggers on 'logo,' 'wordmark,' 'brandmark,' 'mark,' 'monogram,' 'favicon/app icon,' 'is our logo

• motion-design

  Design and build UI motion with intent — micro-interactions, transitions, entrances, scroll and hover behavior — applying the twelve principles of animation to a brand's settled system, in custom code. Use when the user mentions 'animation,' 'motion,' 'micro-interactions,' 'hover effect,' 'transitio

• web-design

  Apply a brand's defined visual system to a real, conversion-focused website — designing and building it in custom code, with real copy given its proper emphasis. Use when the user mentions 'website design,' 'design my site,' 'build a landing page,' 'homepage,' 'marketing site,' 'product page,' 'pric