Design Domination

Colleen Gratzer

Design Domination helps freelance designers gain confidence, clarity and a competitive edge in a crowded marketplace. Adjust your mindset, become more business savvy and sharpen your creative skills, so you get more respect and command higher rates. If you're a logo designer, print designer or web designer looking to make a successful living freelancing, you will benefit from Colleen's real-world expertise in branding, publication design and layout, website design and design business. You'll also hear from other design dominators in the industry. Design Domination is hosted by award-winning designer Colleen Gratzer, principal of Gratzer Graphics LLC and creator of Creative Boost. Colleen provides her insights based on almost 25 years of graphic design expertise and almost 20 years of having a successful creative business. Website: https://creative-boost.com Music: https://www.bensound.com read less

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The State of Web Accessibility in 2024

The State of Web Accessibility in 2024

#175 The WebAIM Million provides insightful data on the top 1 million web pages. Find out what you need to know as a web designer or developer about the state of website accessibility in 2024.

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The State of Web Accessibility in 2024

The State of Web Accessibility in 2024

#175 The WebAIM Million provides insightful data on the top 1 million web pages. Find out what you need to know as a web designer or developer about the state of website accessibility in 2024.

Canva Acquires Affinity: What It Means for Designers

Canva Acquires Affinity: What It Means for Designers

#174 The news of Canva buying Affinity and its parent company Serif has shocked and outraged designers worldwide. Find out more about the Affinity acquisition and what it means for designers.

Key Findings From the WebAIM 2024 Screen Reader User Survey

Key Findings From the WebAIM 2024 Screen Reader User Survey

#173 The WebAIM 2024 Screen Reader User Survey provides insights we can use to perform better web accessibility testing and to understand more about screen reader users’ behavior and preferences.

Business Success From Personal Discovery—With Shannon Mattern

Business Success From Personal Discovery—With Shannon Mattern

#172 Shannon Mattern of Web Designer Academy talks about how personal discoveries and coaching helped her stop undercharging and overdelivering and actually create a more enjoyable, profitable web design business.

Where to Find Clients Needing Accessibility Services

Where to Find Clients Needing Accessibility Services

#171 There are so many places where you can find clients who need your accessibility services. Many of them are already knowledgeable about accessibility and understand they need it and are even easy to find.

Business Lessons From a Chiropractor?!

Business Lessons From a Chiropractor?!

#170 Find out how thinking like a doctor can help your creative business. Get business strategies for getting clients, the sales process and your work processes.

What to Do When You Screw Up a Client Project

What to Do When You Screw Up a Client Project

#169 A screw-up is bound to happen at some point in your creative career. The circumstances around the mistake and how you handle the situation affect your credibility, reputation and bottom line. Find out what to do when you screw up a client project.

Level Access Acquiring UserWay

Level Access Acquiring UserWay

#168 Accessibility company Level Access has warned against website accessibility overlays in the past. So it shocked the accessibility industry when they announced plans to acquire UserWay, known for its overlay. Find out what this potentially means for the industry.

Adobe Acquiring Figma: The Full Scoop

Adobe Acquiring Figma: The Full Scoop

#167 Get the scoop about what happened with Adobe acquiring Figma and what it means for designers.

Client Gifting: The Complete Guide

Client Gifting: The Complete Guide

#166 Thinking about sending a client a gift? Find out what to consider before sending a gift to a client, when to send a gift, what to send clients as a gift and more.

How APCA Changes Accessible Contrast—With Andrew Somers

How APCA Changes Accessible Contrast—With Andrew Somers

#165 APCA calculates contrast differently from WCAG and is expected to be part of WCAG 3. Find out from APCA creator Andrew Somers the problem with WCAG contrast ratios, why APCA is more accurate and how you can make your colors more accessible.

Mastering Accessible Headings

Mastering Accessible Headings

#164 One way to make your documents and website content more accessible is to use an accessible heading structure. Find out some common mistakes when styling headings, easy, actionable tips for how to create accessible headings and tools to check them.

From Generalist to Specialist With Chris Hinds

From Generalist to Specialist With Chris Hinds

#163 Chris Hinds of Equalize Digital shares their story of going from generalist designers to web accessibility specialists, giving them clarity and a competitive edge, winning clients more easily, improving their processes and making marketing efforts easier.

What's New in WCAG 2.2

What's New in WCAG 2.2

#162 Get a plain-English summary of the 9 new success criteria in the WCAG 2.2 guidelines, so that you can make your websites more accessible.

How to Get What You Need From Clients

How to Get What You Need From Clients

#161 Do you spend a lot of time explaining what you need to clients? Tired of clients sending you the wrong files or not following your processes? Find out how to get what you need from clients to make for a smoother client relationship and more profitable projects.

Why Graphic Designers Need a Website

Why Graphic Designers Need a Website

Is having a website worth it? Where should you create your design website? Where should you post your portfolio online? If you’re serious about building a freelance design business, find out why you should have your own website.

5 Must-have Acrobat Accessibility Preflight Fixups

5 Must-have Acrobat Accessibility Preflight Fixups

#159 Do you design or remediate accessible documents and find some of the PDF work to be tedious and time consuming? Find out five Acrobat preflight fixups that will speed up your accessible PDF workflow when it comes to artifacting, hyperlinks and more.

Top 10 Logo Design Podcast Episodes

#158 Find out the top 10 logo design podcast episodes from Design Domination and other podcasts that talk about understanding more about logo design, how to design a logo, how to price a logo, how to get clients and which file formats to create for a logo.

Freelancer vs Employee

Freelancer vs Employee

#157 Thinking of going out on your own as a freelance graphic designer or web designer? Find out the pros and cons of being a full-time freelancer versus employee and some points to consider before working for yourself full time.

AudioEye vs Adrian Roselli: The SLAPP Heard Around the World

AudioEye vs Adrian Roselli: The SLAPP Heard Around the World

#156 The web accessibility community is in an uproar about the AudioEye lawsuit against 30-year accessibility champion Adrian Roselli for his criticism of their overlay product.