How many of these do you do regularly?
- Take constructive criticism too personally (even we do this sometimes)
- Charging too little for design projects
- Not using contracts to cover yourself
- Not setting deadlines for projects
- Doing spec based work (If you like it you can pay for it)
- Not asking for a down payment before starting a project
- Using poorly designed fonts from free font sites
- Using display fonts as text fonts
- Using the Comic Sans font
- Forgetting that white space is your friend
- Not brainstorming before designing
- Not using the grid on screen
- Relying totally on the computer
- Using photoshop filters after your first few months
- Making logos you're unable to reproduce because of size
- Forgetting to learn keyboard shortcuts
- Not saving frequently
- Not backing up files on an external hard drive
- Not getting enough sleep!
- Not researching
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