5 Ways To Streamline Web Design Workflow

Productivity and efficiency are main concern for web designers. The ability to produce great quality content is dependent upon their skill set and efficiency. There are some tips that web designers can follow in day-to-day life to have great workflow. Here are five ways to streamline your web-design workflow.

1. Optimise and Customise Work Environment: 

Web designers are expected to work with different types of software. The work matters a lot in quality of content web designer produces. It’s best to have bunch of great tools handy that you can use to optimize applications. All the applications used by web designers have great short cuts. Well-organised work environment can help in saving lot of time and it ultimately results in great quality work. You can create a main folder for a project and put everything related to that project inside this folder. You can create sub-folders like current module, done, articles, pdfs, design elements etc. This system can help you locate your files very quickly. It’s also important to keep backup of this project, you can use external drive or cloud storage for backup.

2. Research, Wireframes and Sketches: 

Even though using paper and pencil for design may sound like old age, it is important that you follow this exercise when you start working on a new project. The time spent in planning, sketching and wire framing is time well spent. This helps in boosting creativity as you are not restricted by computer interface and limited set of tools and canvas. When you have an idea and it needs to be developed, always do research, wireframes and sketches on paper. This helps and saves lot of time in long run.

3. To-Do List And Tasks: 

If you follow the practice of writing your to-do list for the next day before going to sleep, it helps in saving maximum time. You can re-arrange this list by order of importance in the morning. Create a simple schedule for the work and put work on the list according to priority. You will end up saving lot of time and finishing the project before deadline.

4. Automation of Tasks: 

All actions in photoshop are time-saver. But, don’t forget to automate bunch of other things. You can use Automator app to take care of smaller tasks like renaming and resizing on OS X. There are many Automation apps available for all platforms. Using these apps will help in saving your lot of unproductive time.

5. Pre-Made Design Elements and Reusable Templates: 

Creating something from scratch may sound like an interesting thing to do but, it takes lot time. There are certain design templates and elements that you can use all the time. You can have your icon set or preferred CSS framework. There are many shape libraries available that include social media site’s logos and marks. This helps in reducing lot of time that is spent in creating original icons. 



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