There’s a continuous debate in the design community about whether or not a designer should specialize in one specific area or strive to be a jack-of-all trades. For designers who think it would be beneficial to find a super-specific niche, today we give you 70 ideas to get your creative juices flowing.
This list of possible design niches will jumpstart your creativity and help you decide where you want to focus your efforts as you work to build your design business.
There’s an endless number of niches not mentioned here. Please share your ideas for design niches by leaving a comment!
How to find your design niche: 70 ideas
- Find your design niche in designing web sites for small businesses
- Designing web sites that can be edited by non-programmer/coder clients
- Designing extremely original business cards
- Designing very fancy application icons
- Designing mobile web sites
- Find your niche in designing facebook pages
- Designing facebook tabs
- Designing twitter backgrounds
- Designing web sites that turn a ‘boring’ business into an exciting one
- Designing movie posters
- Find your niche in designing concert posters
- Designing microsites
- Designing portfolio sites
- Designing landing pages
- Working exclusively with Dentists
- Working exclusively with Doctors
- Working exclusively with Small Businesses
- Working exclusively with Large Corporations
- Working exclusively with Grocery Stores
- Working exclusively with Hair Salons
- Working exclusively with Animal Shelters
- Working exclusively with Restaurants
- Find your design niche in working exclusively with Clothing companies
- Working exclusively with Photographers
- Working exclusively with other designers
- Working exclusively with Online businesses
- Working exclusively with Brick and Mortar Businesses
- Targeting companies that have no well-established brand
- Targeting companies that have a rich brand history
- Targeting companies that are non-profit
- Targeting fortune 500 companies
- Targeting companies that have only a few employees
- Find your design niche by targeting companies that have never done business online
- Focusing on selling wordpress templates
- Focusing on selling HTML templates
- Focusing on selling stock logos
- Focusing on selling branding strategies
- Focusing on selling style guides
- Focusing on selling CSS stylesheets
- Specializing in HTML5 web sites
- Specializing in Flash web sites
- Specializing in Javascript applications
- Specializing in Jquery-rich sites
- Specializing in high-traffic design
- Specializing in usability design
- Specializing in logo design
- Specializing in print design
- Specializing in business card design
- Specializing in internet marketing design
- Specializing in web banner ads
- Specializing in branding & identity design
- Specializing in product design
- Find your design niche by specializing in transportation design
- Specializing in billboard design
- Specializing in flyer design
- Specializing in point-of-purchase design
- Specializing in package design
- Specializing in vintage design
- Specializing in modern techniques
- Specializing in style guide design
- Blogging about the business of design 😉
- Blogging about where designers can find inspiration
- Blogging about your own design projects
- Blogging about freelance design
- Blogging about printing techniques
- Blogging exclusively about print design
- Blogging exclusively about web design
- Blogging about logo design
- Blogging about design education
- Or, like me, find your design niche while blogging about design entrepreneurship
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