A major part of any online ad is the CTA ("Call-to-Action") button. This is the virtual button that is meant to prompt a user to click it and take action....
The choice of images has long been an important ingredient of creating a successful ad. Over the years, consumers have gotten savvy and can now easily detect when they are...
Despite its relative youth compared to traditional advertising, digital advertising has seen both huge changes and extraordinary growth. Early digital ads used flashy, "shouting" techniques like pop-ups and pop-under ads...
As a designer, designing for local clients sometimes become a little mundane and routine. There are days, whether real or imagined, that I feel it is a piece of cake....
The right way to achieve client success is to understand the clients and to be attentive to what they are saying and not saying. It is common for designers to face...
It is hard to imagine but crowdsourcing or tapping on an online community to work on online briefs has been around since 2005! Although not a new phenomenon, it is still...
There is more than meets the eye when you are creating effective ads. Here is a cheat sheet with some of the best practices I follow.
Do your homework
Study the product...
The integration of Facebook and other social networking sites into the advertising industry has grown and tightened year on year in the past decade or so. In the technologically fast-paced...
Young designers more often than not learn about certain design pitfalls only on the job and not in school. This article calls out 3 common design pitfalls young designs make...