I love the variety that being a designer brings. But that doesn't mean I love ALL design tasks... One of my least favorite parts is designing assets for social media. But they're so important! So how do we, as in-house designers, maintain passion while keeping up with social media content creation?

I spoke to Sendible's Brand Marketing Manager, David Preston, recently. He gave a really helpful outlook and some useful advice on creating social content.

Want to watch the whole interview?

You can check it out on my podcast, Inside Marketing Design:

https://insidemarketingdesign.co/

https://www.youtube.com/c/InsideMarketingDesign

Full episode: https://youtu.be/J9nmAw_mJY4

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Confession time

01:04 Advice from a Brand Marketing Manager

01:48 Figma templates

02:08 Small team problems

02:50 Auto-layouts and components

03:49 Consistency

04:06 Takeaways from David's approach

05:41 Your approach ????

06:15 Want a detailed, inside look at how marketing design works at Sendible?

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