With this being my senior year at City Tech, I’ve been trying to stay on task and get all assignments done quickly/ to the best ability. I am juggling 5 classes including the internship, which all come with different projects that need my full creative- focus. As the semester is coming to an end I’ve had a lot of finalizing projects to finish up before deadlines. Deadlines are important because they help us collaborate toward achieving a shared goal, and to keep complex, multistage projects on track to set expectations. Deadlines make clear what we’re expected to deliver and when. This means that we can take control of our work, free of confusion. By setting these deadlines, it helps us designers establish clear time frames to help accommodate a client’s timeline and order their other work commitments. One way to handle deadlines is to organize a task sheet that you can share with a client. This will organize your design process in the order in which you work.
Most of the time when deadlines weren’t met is because of the lack of information, and without information that’s needed to put into the project, it cant be completed. There were moments when I had to regularly ask them about when they are going to send you their part and until their team receives the necessary project information, but until then the project will be on hold. Not saying that as designers we shouldn’t help gather data, we could also help provide the information we think will help the design but if it’s becoming a little too overwhelming it’s okay to stop to ask for help because we’ve all experienced ‘creative blocks’. Artists, (i.e graphic designers) can sometimes be so involved in their creative process that they don’t pay attention to the clock or the calendar. Time does fly when you’re working hard and engrossed in your project but also when you’re avoiding work, too. This leads to procrastination, which is an easy path to take. As designers, we have to break from absent-mindedness and take up the responsibility of meeting all of our deadlines.
