Category: Collaboration & Project Management

5 Ways to Solve Creative Project Management Issues

Creativity in team collaboration has never been a simple thing to manage. In fact, it is a big enough question whether you can handle it at all. When you are a manager, your designers and copywriters might need an approach different from that you apply to the rest of your team. However, with specific knowledge […]

Five Achilles’​ Heels of Every Packaging Project

As you know, we at Approval Studio are trying hard to keep in contact with our clients and the broader design community to try and understand its pains better. Research on packaging design always proves very interesting, as there is almost no universal agreement on everything, except for maybe the most common issues.

7 Project Management Trends for 2021

Trends articles are always interesting to write – they kinda tell you a story of different industries, leaving just enough room for predictions. What will the industry be like this year, and what will people bring to it? Will it change radically within several months, or will it continue to move slowly but surely in […]

Solving 6 Terrible Design Crimes In Sherlock’s Style

Managing project budgets is one hell of a job. One must really be a visionary to calculate all the expenses – both time and financial ones. However, this is hardly the hardest part of collaboration: even despite the best preparation possible, most of the projects face some unpleasant circumstances that force them to go overboard […]

How to Work Effectively With a Remote Team of Creators

For the last few months, COVID-19 pandemic has been breaking our habitual pace of life and collaboration, and remote work for the different kind of teams became not just a necessary measure, but a way to stop the virus.

The Art of the Remote Work: How To Perform From Home

Before the worldwide quarantine started due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people I know were eager to try their hand at remote working. Why not? Remote teams seem convenient. But are they?

What are the Benefits of Design Collaboration for Creating a Better Product?

Yeah, we’ve been talking a lot about collaboration on this blog. What choice do we have, though? It is the main engine of the design industry in 2020.

10 Ways to Make a Design Project Faster and More Efficient

To make someone’s business more efficient via work with visuals, one has to become a more efficient graphic designer and employ best practices. Become a faster graphic designer. It’s a no-brainer.

7 Ways Graphic Designers Benefit From Digital Asset Management Software

Let me tell you a story about the importance of a central repository for your media files. Recently I’ve been working on a new creative project of mine – not something from my regular job, rather a hobby…

10 Best Project Management Tips for Design Professionals

Graphic design is something that takes its own separate place among all other creative industries. Want it or not, we interact with it all the time almost every minute of our lives.

How to Create and Organize Your Perfect Business Workflow?

Order, order! No need to tell me that no one particularly likes the words, I am perfectly aware of that.

How to Build a High-Performance Creative Team

Hey-ho, my friends! Slurping hot steamy coffee and listening to the old good Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones playing in my headphones (wow, a rhyme!), I somehow decided I wanted to share with you more insights on teamwork.

10 Key Project Management Tips to Follow

Project management is like driving a car during rush hour. It is not easy, it’s tiring, and sometimes it might drive you nuts, but you still have to keep your focus on.

12 Effective Strategies to Improve Teamwork in the Workplace

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How to Build a Successful In-House Creative Team?

Howdy! Have you ever heard about such a thing as an in-house creative team? I bet you have – they are some sort of a trend nowadays among many companies. Why are they becoming more and more widespread?

How to Manage a Creative Team Without Limiting Their Freedom

It is always challenging to deal with creatives — the chaotic, out-of-the-box thinkers who often look down on management for restricting their imagination. Creativity and fresh perspectives are extremely sought after in the modern business landscape. Ironically, they are also a roadblock when it comes to successful management.

Top 10 Best Creative Project Management Software In 2020

Project management is the very thing that organizes and manages creativity and helps run fresh ideas. That might catch you by surprise, and I would totally understand it – many people look a bit perplexed when I tell them creativity is something that can be managed. Then the question rings: “How can you possibly do […]

5 Must-haves of Successful Project Management. Checklist

What differs a good project manager from a bad one? The answer is the level of involvement.

Remote Collaboration In Design

How effective is remote collaboration in the design sphere?

Nikki Starrett: Build healthy Remote Collaboration

A better understanding of some problems would really help people using freelancer`s services to improve their experience and benefit their future cooperation

The One About Creative Briefing

If you have completed more than one project, you do not need any extra evidence of the importance of creating a brief and its possible impact on the success of the project.