Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

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As you all know, I took a step back from DWL this last month. Luckily I had some amaz­ing peo­ple avail­able to take the reins for me — Thanks so much guys! — I hope you enjoyed their posts as much as I did.

The pri­mary pur­pose of August’s break was to focus on some inter­nal projects that have been neglected, most impor­tantly the (incred­i­bly long-overdue) redesigns of Seamless Creative and DWL. (I’m happy to report we’ve made a ton of great progress — I’ll keep you posted on when you can expect to see some changes around here.) Additionally, tak­ing a step back has given me some space to eval­u­ate where DWL is headed.

This blog has been a true labor of love since its begin­ning. It’s grown into some­thing far big­ger than I ever expected, and it’s your loy­alty and sup­port that have made it what it is. I’m incred­i­bly grate­ful. But the truth is, keep­ing it up takes an extra­or­di­nary amount of time. So, after four-going-on-five years of daily post­ing, I’ve reached a point where I need to shift the site’s course a bit. Don’t worry, we’re not going away! What that means for you is that in order to keep DWL run­ning I’m going to be exper­i­ment­ing with a few changes over the next cou­ple of months.

Content

Starting today you’ll notice that you won’t see the usual daily posts (Etsy Finds, Type Love etc.) pop up each morn­ing. I will still be post­ing that type of con­tent, but there will no longer be a strict sched­ule as to when you see them. Don’t worry, the qual­ity of con­tent won’t change, but the structured/scheduled tim­ing of posts will.

I know so many of you love the Monday Quick Links, and they aren’t going away entirely. I’m going to move to a Twitter–based for­mat for the links, and send them out through­out the week as opposed to sav­ing them up for Mondays. For now, you can find them with the label #DWLQL on Twitter start­ing today. I know not every­one is on Twitter, so soon we will also be adding a Quick Links feed directly to the site.

Advertising

It’s always been impor­tant to me to keep DWL’s ad pres­ence very min­i­mal. But as a result, the rev­enue from the blog has unfor­tu­nately never matched the time and energy that’s required to keep it going. I would pre­fer not to plas­ter the site with more ads, so I’m cur­rently explor­ing other options. And of course, your opin­ions are of the utmost impor­tance in mak­ing this deci­sion; so I’d love to get your feed­back. I’ve set up a very short (5 ques­tions!) sur­vey that focuses only on the site’s mon­e­ti­za­tion. The sur­vey will stay open until Friday at 12 mid­night EST. And if you enter your email address at the end, I’ll send some good­ies to one ran­dom win­ner as a thank-you.

Please click over to visit the sur­vey HERE.

Again, thanks so much for your con­tin­ued support!