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How do I build out a sick design from a totally blank page?
So I've got a whole-ass stack of design questions sitting in a Notion document, and I figured it'd be a cool mini email series to go through some of them and share some design tips with ya! I'm a major design nerd, I LOVE talking about this shit and breaking it down into hopefully more realistic, usable prompts & ways of thinking, so let's get into it.

Let's break down some fire pieces of design.
A couple years ago I did this mini series here in my emails and on my blog (which is no longer live) called What Makes Good Design, where I'd grab a few sick designs off Pinterest or Instagram, and break down why I think they work really well, and offer a couple take aways…

Prompts to get your business shit together for the next 90 days
I'm feeling very keen to take some time this week to map out Quarter 4 in my biz, and see where that takes me. I don't know about anyone else but this side of being an entrepreneur is so fun to me?! The reflecting & the scheming and dreaming & bringing cool new shit to life.

Field Notes on Pivoting Your Brand | Part 5 | How to creative direct your own brand photoshoot
I'm pretty stoked to share todays email with you, because it's on my second fave topic to design, photography! As part of my re-brand I did a whole new photoshoot (only my second one EVER, lol), so I've got some BTS for you as well as a handful of tips…

Field Notes on Pivoting Your Brand | Part 4 | The Website Re-Build
Now we're getting to the tail end of this re-branding series, it's time to get into the biggest part of the entire project — re-building the website. I'm not gonna lie, this is the part I was dreading the most because of how much work it is to rebuild your entire website…

Field Notes on Pivoting Your Brand | Part 3 | Let’s get Designy
We're jumping into the DESIGN portion of re-branding your business! Before I show you some screenshots and get into the actual design, I want to start out with a note about visually branding a personal brand vs a business, because they're very different.

7 Things to Know About Squarespace Courses
So you can now host courses on your Squarespace site! They’re really out here tryna be the true all-in-one for businesses, and its rad to see them expanding the platform, and really listening to their customers. I got early access over the last week or two to test it out…

Field Notes on Pivoting Your Brand | Part 2 | The Branding Deep-Dive
Before we get into the BTS of some of my branding process, along with some more tangible tips for you, I think its important to start with why the hell Branding even MATTERS. Without your story, without solid values, you’re just another business.

Field Notes on Pivoting Your Brand | Part 1 | The vibes are off??
Here we go! This is a new series I'm going to be sharing over the next few weeks where I dive way deeper into the journey of pivoting & re-branding your business. This series will be different content to what I’ve already shared about the whole re-brand & pivot process…

Oh hey, new brand, new website. The story behind my new biz direction.
Holy shit, WELCOME to my brand new website & fresh re-brand! Honestly, this has been a very long time coming. When I first started on it almost a year ago, my only real intention was to move my website from Squarespace 7 to 7.1, and do a little, easy-peasy brand update…

Need some help building a long form sales page? I got you.
I wanted to get designy today, and share some tips & inspo for a LONG FORM SALES PAGE. No shit, sales pages are probably my number one fave thing to build because often there's a LOT of information that needs to be broken up and designed in way…

Brand (almost) anything with this simple design tip
Today I thought I'd let you in on a little secret-not-so-secret design tip that's helped me transform the way I look at custom design pretty much since I started calling myself a designer... Whether you're a designer yourself, or you're a biz owner, this will come in handy no matter where you're at.

Here's 3 things you need to get sorted to create SLICK, BALANCED layouts in your designs
I've been thinking a lot more about how to share what I know in the world of design, so it's fun to share this stuff in new ways, as a lot of it I've never really talked about before. But today, I've got a few layout tips for ya. I've got some solid examples along the way too, to give you the full run-down. Let's go.

4 Easy AF Ways to Refresh your Squarespace Website Today
I wanted these tips to all be mega easy and simple, so you could choose one or two and have a play around inside your Squarespace site, or you could combine all 4 and spend a few hours jooshin' up your website. Be sure to click through to the blog post where I have videos for each tip!

Stop putting so much shit on your home page.
So I’m designing a new client website at the moment and as part of the process I’ve been helping them get clear on some specific things on the home page, such as what the viewers next steps should be. I’ve also been creeping around a couple other websites for ideas, and I noticed something that started to annoy me a bit…

You can’t design (properly) without content.
In the past I used to not worry a whole lot about having final content before I started designing, but that didn’t last very long because it meant so much time was wasted re-doing sections and content because what I’d used as a placeholder was totally different to the actual content…

How to create a ConvertKit template actually that looks decent
This post is short and sweet but I really wanted to share because I wish it existed, cause it would have saved me friggen hours of frustration inside ConvertKit, LOL. I'll show you my super easy 10 minute process to create an email template in ConvertKit that actually looks half decent.

Join the squad. Get the emails.
We’re a rowdy tribe of friends dedicated to building the futures we want to see. You should come hang with us. I send weekly-ish emails on all things design, creativity, and doing shit on your own terms. You in?
