Design Top Tips

Explore quick tips and advice on design including branding and fonts to social media, book design, publishing and website design

Berenice Howard-Smith Berenice Howard-Smith

How headings improve the user experience

Imagine trying to read a book or a website without any headings. How would you know when you had started a new chapter or new section? It’s easy to get into a tangle with headiings, and this post shares a useful tip on how to get them in order to help your audience.

Read More
Berenice Howard-Smith Berenice Howard-Smith

Investing in print design

For work that's been around for longer and requires professional touches because the audience is investing more time, effort, and money, I advise using specialist software. Often, it's only when a book is out there and readers give feedback that authors appreciate that book page design is specialist.

Read More

Does perfection really matter?

I was talking to a copywriter client last week about his website, which we are in the process of creating, and he happened to say hard it was writing his own words. I hear this a lot and it’s the same for me with my promotional work and this website. When you go public it’s scary isn’t it?

Read More

What website builder should you use?

Your experience is critical. If you loath Wix, then you may not feel there’s any point to moving to another CMS (content management system) site like Squarespace. WordPress might be your thing. Or vice versa. If you loath your platform then the chances are, you’ll be worried about updating it or it simply drops to the end of your to do list.

Read More

LET'S CONNECT

Tell me more about your vision.