Couple Rules When Making Marketing Designs

At my job, because we are a very small company, I often have to shift between Interaction/UI designer and Graphic Designer for marketing materials.

When I am designing marketing materials they have completely different objectives from Interaction Design.

The marketing designs should:

  1. Stand out
  2. Be memorable

Memorability has a lot to do with emotion.  Things are more easily remembered if they are associated with strong emotion.

If you aren’t lucky enough to have a marketing person writing the messaging for you, then here are a couple rules in regard to messaging for your marketing piece:

  1. Propose a problem and how your product is the solution
  2. Clearly position your product in the marketplace