20 Most Common InDesign Mistakes

More often than not, we learn to use InDesign from many different sources: tutorials, articles, etc. This may lead to having incomplete information, and making mistakes without even realizing it! Learning a new skill, like how to use InDesign, takes time and energy, and that should be rewarded. The last thing you want is to get discouraged by a few mistakes. In this presentation, you will learn to avoid mistakes with working individually but also when working in global teams.

Types of mistakes:

• Text layout mistakes
• Text placement mistakes
• Language management mistakes
• Image and color mistakes
• Function mistakes

This presentation will help you:

• Understand what mistakes you might be doing
• Learn how to fix your documents
• Learn new tools that will save you lots of time (and stimulate your curiosity)
• Improve the look of your documents
• Collaborate better with other InDesign users

After applying these suggestions, you won’t want to go back to the way you were working before! After the presentation:

• You’ll know how to use InDesign better
• You’ll work faster in InDesign
• Producing your documents will take less time

Additionally, for global teams:

• You will have a better understanding of the challenges global teams face
• You will structure a better workflow
• Translating documents created by you will cost less and take less time

Stefano Bernardi was born and raised in Italy. As a kid, he wanted to be a football player. But as he grew up, he became fascinated by life-changing entrepreneurial stories and that became his new goal. He told a friend, “One day I’ll have a business, and you will work with me.”

In 2015, Bernardi co-founded Redokun, a company that makes an online tool to manage and collaborate on marketing translations. Based in Singapore, the company has helped thousands of marketers improve their workflow, reduce time-to-market, and cut translation costs often by more than 50%.

At Redokun, Bernardi spends most of his time helping customers optimize their InDesign workflow and curates the company blog that helps 100,000 people each month with InDesign issues. He also contributes InDesignSecrets and CreativePro Magazine. He speaks English, Italian and Chinese.

Bernardi describes himself as a people person. “I feel energized when I am in a crowd,” he says. “I love cats and I love solving problems.”