
How to be a more Productive Designer during Working Hours
Take regular breaks
It may sound like a stupid rule, but it’s important to take it seriously. When you take scheduled breaks, you improve your concentration at work. While working on a task, if you take short breaks it helps you have a constant level of performance.
Stop multi-tasking
It’s a wrong idea to think that if we multitask, we are more efficient. In fact, the opposite might be true. If you want to do many tasks at once, it can make you lose time, be less productive or it can make you do one task wrong. Try to take care of a single task before starting a new one.
Listen to music
Listen to your favorite music while working might help you be more productive and get through your to-do list much easier. Don’t think that you may look antisocial, it can just be a sign that you don’t want to be disturbed.

Make sure you have enough sleep
This should be your first priority. If you’re tired, you can’t focus at full potential. So it’s important to have a healthy sleep schedule.
Learn to say no
It’s not something bad to say no from time to time. Actually, when you say “yes” to a request, you say “no” to something else from your life. When you can’t say directly “no”, try another approach like “Thank you so much, but I don’t think I have the time right now”.
Turn off notifications
It’s very easy to be distracted by a text notification or email. Try to turn off your notification during work and make a schedule for checking emails and messages.
“A cluttered desk is a symptom of a cluttered mind.”
If you work in a messy space, it can cause you stress. The time that you lose everyday looking for misplaced papers, it’s wasted time when you could have done more work.

Set deadlines
If you’re not working in a company where they set the important deadlines for you, you can set them yourself. Stress is not always a bad thing. Sometimes stress can help you to be more focused and productive in reaching your goals. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. You’ve heard this before, but it’s so true. How can you have a productive day if you don’t have a plan, a schedule and an order of what to do next? Whatever industry you’re in, deadlines and schedules can become overwhelming and it’s sometimes difficult to stay on top of things. It can get to the point when you’re panicking about finishing something before you’ve even read the brief. So before I leave every night, I set up a list of tasks in order of priority ready for the next morning.
Track the time you spend on a task
You think you can handle the exact time you spend on a task, but you can be wrong. You can be so focused on a task, that you forget how much time you invested in it. In order to get help and know exactly how much time you spend on daily tasks or on social media channels, you can use Rescue Time.
Schedule email time
It’s better if you choose to check your emails in the afternoon, in order to save the morning energy for harder tasks.

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