{"id":96,"date":"2007-12-07T08:14:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T13:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/9-benefits-of-taking-design-seriously\/"},"modified":"2019-10-14T18:28:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T23:28:49","slug":"9-benefits-of-taking-design-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/9-benefits-of-taking-design-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Benefits of Taking Design Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking design seriously can help your small business stand out and be memorable when the competition for your customers attention is ever increasing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Business people need to develop a better understanding of design, form partnerships between themselves and creativity, and apply strategy to design thinking, in order to compete effectively today.&#8221; -Fast Company\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>9 Benefits of Quality Design<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a good first impression<\/li>\n<li>Quickly illustrate the quality of your company, products and\/or services<\/li>\n<li>Gain instant credibility<\/li>\n<li>Establish a level of trust between your company and customers<\/li>\n<li>Simplify communication<\/li>\n<li>Increase usability<\/li>\n<li>Increase customer engagement<\/li>\n<li>Differentiate your company from your competition<\/li>\n<li>Increase readability, scan-ability and legibility<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Having a well designed branding materials, such as your website and logo tell your customers a lot about your company, your products or your services.  A good designer can make a tremendous difference to your company&#8217;s image as well as your overall business.<\/p>\n<p>How do you view design?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking design seriously can help your small business stand out and be memorable when the competition for your customers attention is ever increasing. &#8220;Business people need to develop a better understanding of design, form partnerships between themselves and creativity, and apply strategy to design thinking, in order to compete effectively today.&#8221; -Fast Company 9 Benefits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,7,6],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-logo-design","category-small-business","category-website-design","tag-9-benefits-of-why-design-matters-for-your-small-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}