From the course: Managing Your Design Career

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Building your skills and expanding your project scope

Building your skills and expanding your project scope

From the course: Managing Your Design Career

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Building your skills and expanding your project scope

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- Now that you've gathered insight from a mentor, it's time to take some actionable steps towards improving your skillset. If you do this, it can open doors for new projects, and above and beyond, it shows initiative. So let's talk for a second about what some of those skills are that are in demand. Of course, in the design profession, you need to be proficient in the most current design tools and of course, leading the pack is Adobe, but it's beyond knowing the traditional Adobe creative suite of Photoshop and Design and Illustrator. With the new softwares that are available whether it be Spark or Sketch, you always want to be expanding your expertise to use the most current design softwares for your capabilities. So in addition to design tools, one of the things that is definitely on the rise is exposure to and experience with some of the tools and expertise associated with video production. So some of the tools of course are After Effects or Premier Pro, Final Cut, but whether it…

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