A week ago I launched a weekly design challenge website with some friends (http://weekly.design).
It delivers industry standard practise briefs direct to your inbox every week, which require multiple deliverable to help you become a better designer.
Our aim for W.D is to kick back at the often shallow and unhelpful landscape of current creative challenges I.e design a luggage ticket in illustrator (singular asset), not representative of the majority of studio, or freelance work. It also tries to put up a barrier against the ‘dribbble whirlpool’ whereby people all follow the same trends and create products, or design work which is aesthetically nice, but isn’t functional, doesn’t try to solve an actual problem, and is created for looks alone.
For instance asking someone to design a singular landing page for a eyewear brand might make you think about the UI/UX of the site, but it doesn’t make you look at crucial areas such as competitor analysis, project management, strategy, positioning, and in-depth problem solving. Chances are the first thing you’ll do is go straight to dribbble, or behance, or Pinterest and begin the project from an aesthetic standpoint. This is something we want to avoid with weekly.design. To make you look at other crucial factors in a project process and not just make you a better designer, but make you a better creative on every way.
Our aim is to eventually turn the site into an educational platform full of evergreen content, resources and learning experiences. For now it fires out briefs covering everything from Print, Digital, UI/UX, Video & Animation, Icon Design, or Branding and Logotypes and we’re currently developing bespoke collections around UI/UX so you can focus on the areas you enjoy most.
Like with any product the early days are super important to its success and getting feedback from people is really important to us regarding how the site functions/looks and also the briefs and what could be improved.
We’re also interested to hear from people working within UI/UX/product design to see what kind of brief topics, or themes you’d be interested in.
Feeling curious? get yourself over to the site and sign up, or if anyone fancies showing some support by following the Instagram that would be awesome.
Thanks!
http://www.weekly.design
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