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How Influential Design Can Upgrade Your Brand Image

How Influential Design Can Upgrade Your Brand Image

Design Influence Elements

When it comes to design in the process of branding and re-branding, there are many types of designs we have to take into consideration. Keep in mind, that it’s the design that meets the eye in the first place and makes your brand memorable in a specific way. This is why re-branding needs the element of re-designing as well to introduce yourself in a whole new light and create a different first impression.

Web-Design Element

Now, let’s consider several design elements which create your brand image. First off, let’s start with Web-Design. As you know today’s challenge is to make a Web-Design that is mobile-friendly as well. There is a blank space in front of you and it’s all up to you how you decide to fill that space and compose the final visual of a landing page.

Work With Your Designer

Sometimes we have a nasty habit of not listening to anyone else once we’ve decided exactly what we want to do. Now, Stan Lee himself said in one of his podcasts to do what you genuinely think is good and not give up on it, yet here is one “but”. When it comes to such a collective project as a brand-image creation you just have to do the teamwork. We have all heard negative feedbacks from both-clients and designers as well when a task is not fulfilled exactly or the creativity was blocked. To avoid such quarrels, make sure you actually work with your designer, listen to them and make it clear what you want exactly. Let the staff propose even most unbelievable ideas at the beginning at least and listen to them carefully. Don’t forget, that brand Identity and Image also depends on the environment you create for your co-workers.

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Research Related Designs

What we want to emphasize here is the influence of design. So far we have spoken about web-design. Research is never too much especially when you really want to know what’s going on-on the market. Checking pretty designs on Pinterest will not be enough in this case. Influence of functional design shows itself through CTR (Click Through Rates) and how often a customer comes back to at least scroll through multiple landing pages even if they don’t purchase products or services. In this case you will have to research through the designs of most visited websites in your field and analyze what’s so special in their designs. Of course you must not copy the design but at least you can get a hint on where to start.

Call to Action Through Design

Functional design created a desire of a visitor to become a customer. An effective logo, an impactful ad, and an organized website attract more potential customers to your enterprise. A call to action will be determined by how strategically you place your designs and wireframes. Are they put in right compositions, are the brand colors being used just as strategically to be pleasant to an eye of the visitor? Where do you place your infographics and why? Is UI/UX actually adapted to the interests of your targeted audience? Well, there are lots of questions you’ll have to answer in this case so strategic calculations are a must.

Upgrade Product Design

Product designing is also another element in your design summary that we should not neglect. The design can be done through completely digital medium, like mockups for example, but photographing your product in an environment it’s conceptually connected to is one of the wide-spread ways to present your product and it works just perfect. Product design requires a whole other point of view to make it sales oriented and neat to the customer. Make sure you don’t leave any of the stated design elements without proper attention. After all, Brand Image does take a lot of time and effort.

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5 Steps to follow in Design Thinking

5 Steps to follow in Design Thinking

Importance of Design Thinking

In the modern world, design thinking is becoming increasingly important for numerous companies, because it’s a human-centered, innovative approach that’s focused on the needs of people and combines the possibilities of technology and all the requirements that businesses need for success.

You can apply design thinking to various fields because with this strategy you will be able to solve customers’ requirements with creative solutions. The main focus here is to always find solutions.

Empathize: Research Your Customer’s Needs

For successful design thinking empathy is crucial. You have to understand more about customers’ likes, dislikes, attitudes, habits, aspirations, etc. You have to connect to them on an emotional level. Understanding more about their culture and what kind of social environment they live in will help you a lot as well.

While focusing on the human-centered design process it’s important to turn empathy into your strongest tool. Information that you can get out of his process will most definitely help you to increase the demand for your product or improve your service.

Define: State Your Customers’ Needs and Problems

In the Define stage, you have to analyze the information that you got from the first stage. Organize data and look into the details that your team gathered to understand what could be the core obstacle for you and how you can overcome it. But this process shouldn’t stray away from your customers, you should always have them in mind.

At this stage, you’ll get enough ideas to establish several ways of dealing with your problems. Be very considerate at this stage, try to see the problem from your customer’s perspective, and avoid describing it in your words, which will be most definitely related to your company’s needs. This way you’ll have a clear idea about more solutions or at least you’ll ensure that your customers will be able to solve any issues themselves.

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Ideate: Challenge Assumptions and Create Ideas

At this stage, you are more prepared to generate ideas. You know what your customers need and you analyzed the data to create user-centric problem statements. Your team is ready to look at these problems from different perspectives and think about innovative solutions that will aid you with the problem statement.

There are numerous ideation techniques that will aid you in this process, such as Brainstorm, Brainwrite, etc. You need to think freely and expand your imagination to find the most crucial aspects of your problem statement. Test your ideas, delve more deeply into them and choose the one that will help you to move forward.

Prototype: Start to Create Solutions

This is an experimental stage, where you go through what you discovered in the ideation stage. You are identifying the best solutions for every problem, that was identified in the first three stages. Solutions are tested to determine how they will benefit customers and based on the results they are accepted or rejected.

By the end of this stage, it’s clear what are limitations of specific products and what problems are they really facing. No matter what you are working on, without going through this step it’s very hard to finalize your work successfully.

Test: Try Out Your Solutions

Based on the solutions that you found from the prototype stage you have to test everything on your product. This is the last step in design thinking. The end results might often show you different problems as well or just make you think of better solutions for your problems.

The ultimate goal here is to get a deep understanding of the product and its users and from the first stages, you already have information to maneuver easily through different scenarios. It’s important to get proper feedback from your customers as well. Also, what you are working on should be interesting for them.

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