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8 Pieces of Technology Every Designer Should Have

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Great designers tend to be extremely talented and also work
hard to hone their skills. However, it’s equally important to own and master
the tools of the trade. Having access to the latest technologies might help you
work more efficiently and become highly successful in your industry.

As the majority of the work is done digitally, designers
should have a powerful computer to work flawlessly with big files. It’s also
essential to have a big external hard drive to store them and have a backup in
case something goes wrong. And don’t forget about a comfortable chair, because
working with excruciating back pain can badly affect your productivity.
Discover these eight pieces of technology every designer should have.

A Tablet and Stylus Pen

Image via Flickr by Teal Jeep

Although it’s totally fine to create your drafts using
artist’s pencils and high-quality sketchbooks, you’ll still need to work on
them digitally. The best course of action is to scan or photograph your drafts,
and then finish the work using tools such as the Wacom Intuos, a Huion
1060PLUS, or even an iPad Pro.

A Powerful Laptop or Desktop PC

If you tend to always carry your work with you and spend
time in coffee shops or co-working spaces, a laptop is probably the best
choice. Otherwise, a powerful desktop PC back home should do the job. Pay
special attention to the screen resolution, the RAM memory, and the processor —
since you’ll be working with heavy graphics all the time.

An Incredible Monitor With a
Calibrator

It goes without saying that having a high-definition
monitor is of the utmost importance for a designer. You need to be able to see
the colors perfectly as it would be a disaster if they were different from the
final product. Monitor calibrators can help set up the ideal brightness, gray
balancing, and other settings. Plus, they have room light monitoring. It’s
definitely a must-have!

A Big External Hard Drive

Depending on the type of work you’re doing, you’ll be
dealing with massive files. They usually tend to eat up most of the local
storage, so an external hard drive is essential if you need more space. They’re
also perfect to sync your backups as no one wants to lose a day’s work because
of a power cut.

The Latest Software

It would be great if you could create amazing content with
the pre-installed software that comes with your laptop, but that’s rarely the
case. Most designers tend to use Adobe Creative Cloud, which comes with InDesign,
Photoshop, and Illustrator. They may also use tools such as Corel Painter and
Affinity Designer. They’re not cheap, but it’s an investment that’s worth
making.

A Top-of-the-Line Smartphone

Everybody seems to need a smartphone nowadays, but
designers are a special case — they require a powerful device with a capable
network. A great option would be T-Mobile’s iPhone 6s Plus with its 12MP camera and
retina HD display. When you take into consideration that T-Mobile is the
fastest network, you won’t have problems checking those big files on the go.

Quality Speakers or Headphones

Did you know that listening to music while working can drastically improve your productivity? Studies show that depending
on the type of work (problem-solving, data entry, etc.), you might want to
listen to classical music, pop songs, or even dance music! With that in mind,
it’s probably a good idea to have top-notch speakers or headphones so you can
get more accomplished while listening to the right tunes.

A Comfortable Chair

If you’ve ever tried to work with never-ending back pain,
then you know how important a comfortable chair is. As you struggle to focus on
your projects, your productivity decreases and consequently your earnings. The
right ergonomic chair can help with your back, but also with repetitive strain
injury and even with blood flow.

Being a designer is no easy feat. Apart from constantly
trying to come up with interesting ideas for your projects, you also need
incredible artistic skills. But if you don’t have the right tools to work with,
all that talent could be wasted. When you invest in high-quality technology,
you’re also investing in your career.

Design

8 Pieces of Technology Every Designer Should Have

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Great designers tend to be extremely talented and also work
hard to hone their skills. However, it’s equally important to own and master
the tools of the trade. Having access to the latest technologies might help you
work more efficiently and become highly successful in your industry.

As the majority of the work is done digitally, designers
should have a powerful computer to work flawlessly with big files. It’s also
essential to have a big external hard drive to store them and have a backup in
case something goes wrong. And don’t forget about a comfortable chair, because
working with excruciating back pain can badly affect your productivity.
Discover these eight pieces of technology every designer should have.

A Tablet and Stylus Pen

Image via Flickr by Teal Jeep

Although it’s totally fine to create your drafts using
artist’s pencils and high-quality sketchbooks, you’ll still need to work on
them digitally. The best course of action is to scan or photograph your drafts,
and then finish the work using tools such as the Wacom Intuos, a Huion
1060PLUS, or even an iPad Pro.

A Powerful Laptop or Desktop PC

If you tend to always carry your work with you and spend
time in coffee shops or co-working spaces, a laptop is probably the best
choice. Otherwise, a powerful desktop PC back home should do the job. Pay
special attention to the screen resolution, the RAM memory, and the processor —
since you’ll be working with heavy graphics all the time.

An Incredible Monitor With a
Calibrator

It goes without saying that having a high-definition
monitor is of the utmost importance for a designer. You need to be able to see
the colors perfectly as it would be a disaster if they were different from the
final product. Monitor calibrators can help set up the ideal brightness, gray
balancing, and other settings. Plus, they have room light monitoring. It’s
definitely a must-have!

A Big External Hard Drive

Depending on the type of work you’re doing, you’ll be
dealing with massive files. They usually tend to eat up most of the local
storage, so an external hard drive is essential if you need more space. They’re
also perfect to sync your backups as no one wants to lose a day’s work because
of a power cut.

The Latest Software

It would be great if you could create amazing content with
the pre-installed software that comes with your laptop, but that’s rarely the
case. Most designers tend to use Adobe Creative Cloud, which comes with InDesign,
Photoshop, and Illustrator. They may also use tools such as Corel Painter and
Affinity Designer. They’re not cheap, but it’s an investment that’s worth
making.

A Top-of-the-Line Smartphone

Everybody seems to need a smartphone nowadays, but
designers are a special case — they require a powerful device with a capable
network. A great option would be T-Mobile’s iPhone 6s Plus with its 12MP camera and
retina HD display. When you take into consideration that T-Mobile is the
fastest network, you won’t have problems checking those big files on the go.

Quality Speakers or Headphones

Did you know that listening to music while working can drastically improve your productivity? Studies show that depending
on the type of work (problem-solving, data entry, etc.), you might want to
listen to classical music, pop songs, or even dance music! With that in mind,
it’s probably a good idea to have top-notch speakers or headphones so you can
get more accomplished while listening to the right tunes.

A Comfortable Chair

If you’ve ever tried to work with never-ending back pain,
then you know how important a comfortable chair is. As you struggle to focus on
your projects, your productivity decreases and consequently your earnings. The
right ergonomic chair can help with your back, but also with repetitive strain
injury and even with blood flow.

Being a designer is no easy feat. Apart from constantly
trying to come up with interesting ideas for your projects, you also need
incredible artistic skills. But if you don’t have the right tools to work with,
all that talent could be wasted. When you invest in high-quality technology,
you’re also investing in your career.

Design

Illustrations of wild animals bursting out of geometric encasings

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It’s not the first time we publish work by Filipino illustrator Kerby Rosanes on Designer Daily, we already featured some of his sketches and doodles.

We will probably have to feature him again in the future, as he keeps on producing stunning work, like these animals popping out of geometric shapes. If you enjoy this work, make sure to follow the artist through the social links you’ll find on his website.

Design

Illustrations of wild animals bursting out of geometric encasings

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It’s not the first time we publish work by Filipino illustrator Kerby Rosanes on Designer Daily, we already featured some of his sketches and doodles.

We will probably have to feature him again in the future, as he keeps on producing stunning work, like these animals popping out of geometric shapes. If you enjoy this work, make sure to follow the artist through the social links you’ll find on his website.

CSS

What’s the difference between ./dogs.html and /dogs.html?

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They are both URL paths. They have different names, though.

<!-- root-relative -->
<a href="./dogs.html">Dogs</a>

<!-- absolute -->
<a href="/dogs.html">Dogs</a>

There are also fully-qualified URLs that would be like:

<!-- fully qualified -->
<a href="https://website.com/dogs.html">Dogs</a>

Fully-qualified URL’s are pretty obvious in what they do — that link takes you to that exact place. So, let’s look those first two examples again.

Say you have a directory structure like this on your site:

public/
├── index.html
└── animals/
    ├── cats.html
    └── dogs.html

If you put a link on cats.html that links to /dogs.html (an „absolute” path), it’s going to 404 — there is no dogs.html at the base/root level of this site! The / at the beginning of the path means „start at the very bottom level and go up from there” (with public/ being the very bottom level).

That link on cats.html would need to be written as either ./dogs.html (start one directory back and work up) or /animals/dogs.html (explicitly state which directory to start at).

Absolute URLs get longer, naturally, the more complex the directory structure.

public/
├── animals/
  └── pets/
      ├── c/
      |   └── cats.html
      └── d/
          └── dogs.html

With a structure like this, for dogs.html to link to cats.html, it would have to be either…

<!-- Notice the TWO dots, meaning back up another folder level -->
<a href="../c/cats.html">cats</a>

<!-- Or absolute -->
<a href="/animals/pets/c/cats.html">cats</a>

It’s worth noting in this scenario that if animals/ was renamed animal/, then the relative link would still work, but the absolute link would not. That can be a downside to using absolute links. When you’re that specific, making a change to the path will impact your links.

We’ve only looked at HTML linking to HTML, but this idea is universal to the web (and computers, basically). For example, in a CSS file, you might have:

body {
  /* Back up one level from /images and follow this path */
  background-image: url(./images/pattern.png);
}

…which would be correct in this situation:

public/
├── images/
|   └── pattern.png
├──index.html
└── style.css

But if you were to move the CSS file… 

public/
├── images/
|   └── pattern.png
├── css/
|   └── style.css
└── index.html

…then that becomes wrong because your CSS file is now nested in another directory and is referencing paths from a deeper level. You’d need to back up another folder level again with two dots, like ../images/pattern.png.

One URL format isn’t better than another — it just depends on what you think is more useful and intuitive at the time.

For me, I think about what is the least likely thing to change. For something like an image asset, I find it very unlikely that I’ll ever move it, so linking to it with an absolute URL path (e.g. /images/pattern.png) seems the safest. But for linking documents together that all happen to be in the same directory, it seems safer to link them relatively.

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