Design Domination
Podcasts
Design Domination helps freelance designers gain confidence, clarity and a competitive edge in a crowded marketplace. Adjust your mindset, become more business savvy and sharpen your creative skills, so you get more respect and command higher rates. If you're a logo designer, print designer or web designer looking to make a successful living freelancing, you will benefit from Colleen's real-world expertise in branding, publication design and layout, website design and design business. You'll also hear from other design dominators in the industry. Design Domination is hosted by award-winning designer Colleen Gratzer, principal of Gratzer Graphics LLC and creator of Creative Boost. Colleen provides her insights based on almost 25 years of graphic design expertise and almost 20 years of having a successful creative business. Website: https://creative-boost.com Music: https://www.bensound.com
Location:
United States
Genres:
Podcasts
Description:
Design Domination helps freelance designers gain confidence, clarity and a competitive edge in a crowded marketplace. Adjust your mindset, become more business savvy and sharpen your creative skills, so you get more respect and command higher rates. If you're a logo designer, print designer or web designer looking to make a successful living freelancing, you will benefit from Colleen's real-world expertise in branding, publication design and layout, website design and design business. You'll also hear from other design dominators in the industry. Design Domination is hosted by award-winning designer Colleen Gratzer, principal of Gratzer Graphics LLC and creator of Creative Boost. Colleen provides her insights based on almost 25 years of graphic design expertise and almost 20 years of having a successful creative business. Website: https://creative-boost.com Music: https://www.bensound.com
Twitter:
@creativeboostco
Language:
English
Episodes
Adding Metadata for Document Accessibility
8/20/2025
#195 Something very easy to do for document accessibility is to add a few bits of metadata. Find out why metadata is important for accessibility, what metadata to add and how to add metadata to a document.
Duración:00:06:03
10 Surprising Facts About Me
7/9/2025
#194 Find out 10 surprising facts about me—my education, other jobs I’ve had, a famous relative, a paralyzing fear, the type of design work I refuse to do and more.
Duración:00:14:33
Ultimate Guide to Creating a Transcript
5/7/2025
#193 People spend several hours a day consuming video content. If your audio and video content isn’t accompanied by a transcript, it will be much less accessible to everyone, not just certain users. Find out how to create a transcript and 7 reasons you should.
Duración:00:08:12
5 Tips for Creating Accessible PDFs Efficiently
4/23/2025
#192 If you’re new to creating accessible PDFs from InDesign, Word, PowerPoint or if you don’t have an efficient process, then you may face certain challenges. Get 5 tips for creating accessible PDFs efficiently.
Duración:00:12:28
2025 State of Website Accessibility
4/9/2025
191 Find out what these website accessibility insights from the 2025 WebAIM Million report, using the WAVE automated checker, mean for you as a web designer or developer today.
Duración:00:11:00
7 Reasons to Add Captions to Videos
3/26/2025
#190 You might think that video captions are only for accessibility and for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. Here are 7 reasons to add captions to videos that may surprise you.
Duración:00:07:22
UserWay Class-action Lawsuit
3/12/2025
#189 Another website accessibility overlay company has been sued. This time it involves UserWay and a class-action lawsuit. Find out what this means for you as a website designer or developer.
Duración:00:11:42
Does Accessibility Apply to Print Design?
2/26/2025
Graphic designers often ask if accessibility laws and guidelines apply to print design, not just websites, document and other digital content. The answer might surprise you.
Duración:00:09:40
How to Create an Accessibility Statement
2/12/2025
#187 An accessibility statement is an important but sometimes overlooked part of a website. Find out why a website should have an accessibility statement, what it should include and how to create an accessibility statement.
Duración:00:07:29
European Accessibility Act: What You Need to Know
1/29/2025
186: The June 2025 deadline for the European Accessibility Act is fast approaching. Find out what you need to know and how it may affect the websites you build, even if you’re outside of the E.U.
Duración:00:09:12
FTC Fines accessiBe $1 Million for Deceptive Claims
1/15/2025
185: What you need to know about the FTC complaint against accessiBe and what it means for web designers and developers.
Duración:00:11:00
Accessible Design Critique: Food Packaging
10/2/2024
#184 Find out from this accessible design critique how accessibility can affect food package design in the marketplace.
Duración:00:06:17
The Biggest Accessibility Mistake
9/18/2024
#183 Find out the biggest accessibility mistake when it comes to document design, web design or infographic design and how to avoid it, so that your designs will be more accessible.
Duración:00:07:19
Accessibility Compliance versus Conformance
8/21/2024
#182 Find out about why it's important to understand the difference between accessibility compliance versus conformance when doing accessibility work.
Duración:00:07:19
10 Things You Should Know About Accessibility in 5 Minutes
8/7/2024
#181 Do you think accessibility doesn't apply to you as a designer? Are you trying to get others on board with it? Here are 10 things you should know about accessibility in 5 minutes.
Duración:00:06:12
21 Business Lessons After 21 Years in Business
7/11/2024
#180 Find out 21 business lessons I’ve learned over the past 21 years of having a successful creative business that will give you more confidence and clarity with your own freelance design business.
Duración:00:34:07
Adobes New Terms of Service What You Need to KnowWith Matt the Lawyer
6/20/2024
#179 Adobe’s latest terms of service updates have caused an uproar in the design industry, with designers saying they are leaving Adobe once and for all. Find out what you need to know—from a lawyer—about Adobe’s terms of use.
Duración:00:36:43
#1 Accessible Infographic Creator — With Eugene Woo
6/12/2024
#178 Many designers want an alternative to Adobe and Canva that will help them create accessible infographics and short documents that can be edited by non-designers and don’t have to be remediated. Find out how accessible infographic creator Venngage can help you do that.
Duración:00:37:34
Big Clients versus Small Clients
5/29/2024
#177 A lot of designers think having big clients is the key to making more money in their creative business. But that is not the case, and there are many pros and cons to working with them. Find out the advantages and disadvantages to working with big clients versus small clients and which ones you should work with.
Duración:00:12:27
The Best Free Fonts to Download
5/8/2024
#176 Find out where to get quality free fonts you can legally use for design projects, surprising reasons you should use certain free fonts, and accessibility concerns with certain types of typefaces.
Duración:00:09:16