My #1 Productivity Hack for Business Owners and Graphic Designers

What makes me most productive as a business owner and graphic designer? You guessed it, putting away my phone.

Yes, saying “no” to my phone is my #1 all-time productivity hack. Rationalizing I need to post something to my business Instagram account, I pick up my phone and start scrolling. And scrolling. Not necessarily engaging, but turning down rabbit holes. An entire half hour can go by before I realize my mistake. I’ve learned over time that shaming myself or feeling bad about thirty minutes lost rarely helps, but what does, is making it harder to use my phone. Here are three tools that I’ve used, in order of helpful to most helpful in staying off my phone and on task.

design, entrepreneurship, businessKayla PhillipsJuly 16, 2025productivity, phone use, time managementComment

Understanding File Types

Maybe you’ve had this happen before. You hire a graphic designer and they ask for a vectorized file of your logo. You don’t know what that means, so you send all the files you have and hope for the best. An email lands in your inbox saying you still don’t have it right.

The frustration.

How would you know? You’re not a graphic designer, printer, or web developer.

That’s why we wrote this article — to untangle the wieldy ball of file types and their definitions.

By understanding just a few terms, you’ll be able to work with web designers, marketers, graphic designers, and the like in the industry seamlessly.