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THINK LIKE A DESIGNER

Learn the Art of Design Bullshitting

Craft a compelling story about your work, and if that fails, you better know how to wing it.

4 min readJul 31, 2020

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Learning to speak about your work with eloquence while engaging the audience is one of the essential skills designers can learn. They should be able to craft a compelling story that incorporates your rationale and meets the criteria of the project brief.

Wax poetically

To succeed in selling your design work during pitches, you need to learn how to positively and optimistically speak about your ideas. There’s still a bit of mystery to what designers actually do. Come prepared with a compelling story about your vision and use emotion to speak about your work, and they’ll be eating out of your hands.

A clear blue sky.
Photo by ARTHUR YAO on Unsplash

Before going into a design presentation, I always write out the story I’m going to tell and then practice by doing dry runs of my pitch. Consider the outcomes of the following two statements about why you chose the color blue.

  1. The possibilities and opportunities for your business are limitless. I‘m…

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Jeffrey Bates
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Written by Jeffrey Bates

Highly experienced creative director writing on design thinking, sports, and life. Design: jeffrebrands.com | For fun: createanddestroy.com

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