Agency co-founder, podcast host, and author Kelsey Gilbert-Kreiling chats to us about finding small acts of creativity to unblock your creative spirit, working with celebrity clients, and her latest work: publishing a book and a course.

Catching Up With... Kelsey Gilbert-Kreiling

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How do you communicate your design decisions without sounding defensive? Here's the shift of mindset you might need to stay honest while avoiding conflict or feeling criticized.

Ask a Designer #17: How do I communicate design decisions?

Ana Wang explores whether or not a remote job could be right for you, and shares tips and resources for getting your first (or next) remote job.

How to Land Your First (or Next) Remote Job

Ana gives her expert insight on how to get set up and uncovers some ways to excel in your remote job so that you don't have to sacrifice career growth.

How to Work Remotely Without Losing Your Soul

Ana gives us the highs and lows of what it means to work remotely.

Remote Work: What Are You Really Getting Into?

Go back to basics with these copywriting tips and techniques for people who aren't professional writers or frankly, even amateur writer-types.

Copywriting for Designers: A Guide for Getting Started

Where did copywriting come from and where is it heading? Find out in Ana Wang's latest article.

The Future of Copywriting is User-Focused

Illustrator and concept artist Guru Jords chats to us about life and work: from overcoming creative block and to finding inspiration in nature.

Catching Up With... Guru Jords

Content is king? Here's what that means for designers.

How to Design with Content in Mind

So you’ve built a personal brand, what next? Coach and strategist Hollie Arnett takes you through the steps to work on your growth.

How to Grow your Personal Brand as a Creative

Are NFTs a fad or the beginning of a revolution? Decide for yourself after reading this article.

How to Wrap Your Head Around NFTs

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Getting let go from a job can be the biggest blow to your self worth. Here's how to build yourself back up and come back stronger!

Ask a Designer #16: How Can I Rebuild My Self Esteem After Being Fired?

Want to start building a brand for yourself? Coach and strategist Hollie Arnett shows you the steps to success.

How to Build a Personal Brand: The Creative’s Guide

Wondering if you need a formal qualification for design? Charli guides a fashion designer through their options for forging a new path in graphic design.

Ask a Designer #15: Should I Get a Formal Design Qualification to Make a Career Change?

You may have heard the term Web 3 and wondered if you missed something – how did we get here? What are Web 1 and 2? Find out in Ana Wang's debrief.

How to Wrap Your Head Around Web 3

Ever been hired for a freelance design job that has no project manager on it? Charli discusses some coping mechanisms in this column.

Ask a Designer #14: What Do I Do When a Project is Lacking Management?

Get creative with coding in part 2 of Arianna's step-by-step guide! Build your very own web-based painting app and create digital masterpieces, all in the browser.

How to Paint with Code: Building Your App

What's the difference between a marketing designer, product designer, UX designer... and all the other designers? In her first column, Charli Marie demystifies the many different roles that crop up while job hunting.

Ask a Designer #13: What Do All These Design Roles Actually Mean?

Can building a personal brand really help you land the right kind of clients and increase your income? Find out in this article by brand coach and strategist, Hollie Arnett.

How Personal Branding Can Help Your Creative Career

In her final column, Abby offers some smart suggestions of project management essentials that make freelance life a whole lot smoother.

Ask a Project Manager #12: What PM Skills Should Freelancers Know?

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Struggling to grasp the weird and wonderful world of cryptocurrency? Read this super accessible beginner's guide to clue up on the essentials.

How to Wrap Your Head Around Cryptocurrency: A Beginner's Guide

In this week's column, Abby gives her advice on how to make super tight contracts that will help to reduce money-related issues with stakeholders.

Ask a Project Manager #11: How Can I Avoid Money Disagreements with Clients?

In this week's column, Abby shares advice on how to receive constructive feedback on your project management skills, aka a super power for self improvement!

Ask a Project Manager #10: How Do I Get Good Constructive Feedback?

Want to make an app but no idea where to start? We've got you! SuperHi's content lead Faith talks to Lou about creating our Plan, Design + Code Your First App course.

Planning, Designing + Coding Your First iOs App with Lou

In this third instalment, Abby guides a developer on how to move into the world of product management. No prior experience? No problem.

Ask a Project Manager #9: How Do I Transition from Development to Product Management?

What is UI design? Why are design systems so important? From styles and components to astrology apps, we chat to SuperHi's resident Design Teacher, Par Memon, about all things user interface design.

Creativity, Components + Community: In Conversation with SuperHi's UI Design Teacher

"I've never experienced delays in a project", said no one ever! In her second column, Abby shares some wisdom on the steps you can take to protect yourself during project timeline delays.

Ask a Project Manager #8: How Do I Protect Myself in a Project Timeline?

What does it take to keep creativity flowing through the veins of a business? In his final instalment of this series, Koto's creative director and co-founder James Greenfield delves into how to keep the energy and avoid "creative rot".

How to Keep Business Creative

Get creative with coding! Follow Arianna's step-by-step guide to creating your very own paintbrush kit and start experimenting.

How to Paint with Code: Creating Your Brushes

Abby shares tips on how to transition into your first digital project management role, how to narrow the search, and how to spot red flags when job hunting.

Ask a Project Manager #7: How Do I Land My First Digital Project Management Role?

Why is React such a powerful frontend framework? SuperHi's content lead Faith chats to the creators of our Intro to React.js course, Isabel and Ryan.

Why Learning React is a Really Great Idea

In his third instalment, Koto's creative director and co-founder James Greenfield shares some sage advice on how to grow a creative business with grace.

How Do You Grow a Creative Business?

SuperHi's content lead Faith McAllister chats to our founder, Rik Lomas, about our new Shaders for the Web short course.

Exploring Shaders for the Web with Rik

In this tutorial, we'll learn how to add a water ripple and wave effect to images using WebGL shaders.

How to Add a Water Ripple Effect to Website Images Using WebGL and Shaders

In this tutorial, we'll create a smooth panning gallery from scratch using CSS and Javascript.

How to Add Panning to a Gallery with CSS and Javascript

In this tutorial, we'll learn how to make an animated clown mask Instagram filter using Spark AR and Figma. 

How to Make an Animated Clown Mask Instagram Filter with Spark AR

In this tutorial, we'll learn how to make a 3d book using Three.js based on the awesome designs of the New Aesthetic 2 website (https://newaesthetic.xyz/​)

How to Make a 3d Book Using Three.js That Rotates When You Scroll Down a Web Page

In this tutorial, we'll learn how to create an "accordion" menu feature with Javascript, which is a design feature for letting your users show and hide relevant content, popularly seen on things like FAQs.

How to Make a Javascript Accordion

In this tutorial, we'll use HTML, CSS and Javascript to add a mouse trail effect to our websites and then how to add in a hover effect where hidden text is revealed!

How to Make a Custom Mouse Cursor with Text Hover and Trail Effects with HTML, CSS and Javascript

On the POL Studio website, there's a great design effect where the logo appears both over and under the content. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to recreate this overlay outline effect. 

How to Make an Overlay Logo with an Outline Effect Using CSS

Using the Luxon Javascript library, we'll learn how to add multiple times with their respective timezones to a website!

How to Add International Times with Timezones to Your Website

From finding a co-founder to building your reputation and voice, James Greenfield shares some solid advice on how to set up a creative business - the right way.

How to Start a Creative Business: Setting Up for Success

Struggling to land a job in tech? SuperHi teacher Lou has compiled some handy resources and key tips to give you the best chance of getting hired.

How to Land Your First Job in Tech

It's time to demystify the mighty portable document format – and share some design tips that'll take yours to the next level.

What Actually is a PDF? (+ How to Design Better Ones)

So you've broken your code and the solution refuses to reveal itself. What next? Try these tools and methods to help uncover where things might have gone wrong.

How to Debug Your Website: A Beginner's Guide

Are you dreaming of starting up? Ask yourself these five vital questions every budding entrepreneur should consider before embarking on the journey.

Do You Really Want to Start a Creative Business?

Nika shows us how web accessibility can be part of the initial design process, rather than an afterthought.

How to Design with Web Accessibility in Mind

Nika offers advice to a creatively-deprived developer pondering a career change to product design.

Ask a Designer #12: Shall I Change My Career Path to Save My Creativity?

How much of life are we cropping out? Nika reflects on this vital question in a brief history of aspect ratios in tech.

What Gets Lost in the Crop? How Aspect Ratios Shape the Way We See the World

SuperHi's advice columnist and graphic designer Nika takes us through the journey of starting (and finishing) a personal design project.

Ask a Designer #11: How Do I Start a Side Project?

No clients? No worries! Nika shares her wisdom on how to create an impressive portfolio without any paid design work.

Ask a Designer #10: How Do I Create a Portfolio Without Any Real Client Work?

What does it mean to build a sustainable website? Nika spotlights two founders who are taking an eco approach.

How to Build a Greener Web

Nika offers some key tips for cracking into a crowded industry.

Ask a Designer #9: How Do I Break into Graphic Design?

It's time to talk about the fun behind the scenes work every business has to do.

How Freelance Designer Max Pete Thrives in Adminland

We chat to graphic designer Adam Ho on designing Abstract, a design version control tool

How Designer Adam Ho Blurs the Lines of Branding, Interaction and Art

Why Collaboration Trumps Competition When You're a Freelancer

SuperHi's community specialist Brian on taking on new challenges and the lessons he's learned.

How to Thrive in a New Startup Job

What is internet art and what can designers learn from it?

Tales of Web 1.0: How Studying Net Art from the 90s Can Inform Design Today

We all have something that's unique about each of us and it’s important to be able to share that with our potential clients.

How to Stand Out With Your Story

On answering the dreaded..."what do you do?" question.

How to Explain What You Really Do, Graphic Designer Edition

Nika writes about how to keep up with the fast-changing tools in design.

Ask a Designer #8: How do I Keep Up With Changing Software and Jargon?

Max Pete on what it really takes to freelance full-time, and stick it out for the long term.

The Mindset Shifts You Need to Make When Becoming a Freelancer

Career reinvention doesn't look one way and we're all on the same page.

The Many Faces of Career Reinvention

Today, Nika walks through what to do when you think it might be time to give up on your dream career.

Ask a Designer #7: How Do I Know When to Give Up on My Dream Career?

How American Brands are Using Graphic Design to Boost Voter Awareness

We chat to SuperHi's designer and art director André Cândido on his creative process as he worked through SuperHi's brand refresh.

How Designer André Cândido Is Setting Up SuperHi's Brand for Scale

Learn how to add social share images to Shopify themes!

How to Add a Dynamic Social Share Image to a Shopify Theme

Nobody ever said it was going to be easy. Why big changes don't equal big growth and how to live and thrive in the uncertainty.

The Hard Thing About Growth

We chat to designer Meg Lewis on how she's built a company based entirely on her personality.

How Designer Meg Lewis Combines Comedy and Performance with Her New Podcast

The hardest thing about side projects isn't coming up with ideas. 

From Idea to Done: How to Finish, Ship and Launch Your Creative Side Projects

Anyone who's wanted to work on a creative side project has come across the challenge of not knowing exactly what to work on. 

How to Come Up With Your Next Side Project Idea

We chat to information designer Giorgia Lupi on how she manages her creative process, making Happy Data, and the book she's writing next.

How Information Designer Giorgia Lupi Works With Many Mediums, Many Projects

A brief look at creative side projects you may or may not have heard of.

A Brief Study of Creativity, As Seen Through Side Projects

The side hustle has become synonymous with success and ambition in modern work, but is it really the best way to achieve your goals? 

Welcome to the De-glorification of the Side Hustle

We chat to designer Anton Sten on working remotely, "dining together" with your team, and making Toast.

How UX Designer Anton Sten Works Remotely

You don't have to be a "project manager" at work to reap the benefits for yourself or for how you work in a team. 

How to Get Started with Project Management

Don't fix what ain't broken: here are tried and true approaches that have taken many projects successfully from idea to the finish line.

5 Essential Project Management Methodologies You Need to Know

Here's why everyone who works on things, whether with a team or solo, needs to start thinking and acting like a project manager.

Project Management: The New Creative Superpower

Whether you design products or graphics, cultivating a creative practice is key to sharpening your skills and getting really good.

How to Get (And Stay!) Inspired as a Designer

What's the difference between a UX and a UI designer? What about graphic design vs digital design? 

Designing for the Web 101: The Truth About All the Different Roles You'll Come Across

What makes a good designer and could you be one? 

Can Anyone be a Good Designer?

Plus, learn what the five common mistakes people make when learning to code are.

Ready to Learn to Code? How to Get Started, Get Unstuck and Stay Motivated

Digital projects depend heavily on the correct choice of coding language, so learn to pick the right ones.

A Quickstart Guide to Programming Languages and How to Choose the Right One

There's a secret in the tech industry. Even though the internet has become more complex and noisy, learning to code is a lot easier than you think.

Calling All Creatives: Why You Should (And Shouldn't) Learn to Code

How do we decide what creative work to keep for ourselves and what work to do for others? 

How to Find Meaning in Creative Pursuits Outside of Work

SuperHi's CEO Rik Lomas dishes on how to do well in a coding interview.

Ask a Coder #1: How Do I Do Well in a Coding Test?

Are you living that #wfh life? Alice Katter shares her tips on how to stay creative while working from home.

How to Stay Sane and Embrace Downtime When You're Working From Home

If only there was a formula to producing good creative work. There isn't, but let's try to get as close as we can. 

How to be Creative Even When You Don't Feel Like It

We chat to designer Olivia Charlesworth on her journey as a freelancer, what she's learned, and what she's still learning.

How Designer Olivia Charlesworth Found Clients and Built a Network in a New City

The internet is a noisy place, both a web of beautiful, boundless connections and information and a cesspool of whatever you can possibly imagine. It can be the best of places and the worst of places. 

How to Stay Inspired Through the Noise of the Internet

Daniel Milroy Maher's bread and butter isn't the design or code work, but the spaces in between: the cultural discourse, the celebration of designers and artists, the work it takes to create a space for creatives to thrive. 

How Writer and Editor Daniel Milroy Maher Got Going On His Freelance Career

Maybe it's not about balance: maybe self care is about whatever you need to keep going, to keep doing, to say all the things you want to say. 

How Coding Became My Self Care

In this tutorial, we add a moving 3d flag, as seen on Yuta Takahashi's website, using the Javascript library, Three.js, to our website.

How to Make a 3d Waving Flag Using Three.js, WebGL and Javascript

We chat to designer Carolyn Zhang about all kinds of things, from what it took to make the leap, to her take on the future of freelancing, to what it means to make meaningful and creative work.

How Independent Digital Designer Carolyn Zhang Built Her Freelance Career

It's time to talk about what you want to build for your future, freelancing and beyond.

The Creative Freelancer's Guide to Growing a Business and Scaling Independence

Rachel takes us through the highs and lows of what it really takes to start your own business.

Ask a Project Manager #6: How Do I Become My Own Boss?

You're operating the engine of your independence. That means deciding what you're worth, closing the sale, and managing your cash flow.

The Creative Freelancer's Guide to Setting Up a Business and Getting Paid

Rachel dishes on what it takes to get your first role as a project manager.

Ask a Project Manager #5: How Do I Land My First Project Management Job?

When you really need work and the long game won't work for now, you've got to get out there and go get it.

How to Pitch Yourself to Get Freelance Work

Rachel writes about the difference between management and leadership, how to ask for and get behavior change from people and becoming an ally so your team can work together to get things done - on time.

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