5 Graphic Design Essentials for 2022

Interactive Elements & Animations

Engaging consumers through motion and animation. Static graphics don’t always cut through the noise. With the increase in digital platforms, brands can use motion in design to better the way they approach storytelling and deliver memorable experiences to customers.

Accessible Designs

Have you ever increased the font size on your phone or in your browser? You’re benefiting from an accessibility feature. Accessibility design fundamentals such as color contrast, font size and defined heading structures have been around for years. Now, brands and their agencies must focus on improving digital accessibility further. Designers should ensure elements are available for screen readers through adding image descriptions, determining the tab navigation order, and enabling text scaling to name just a few. Flexitive has each of the features built-in, so you can easily ensure all of your designs meet accessibility requirements.

Reusable ‘Global Assets’

Global brands operating across the world often have a huge number of design elements and lock-ups to meet certain market requirements. One of the best ways to avoid repeating work and to ensure consistent brand experiences is to develop reusable components or ‘Global Assets.’ When you make updates to a Global Asset, the asset will instantly update across other designs where it is embedded. Now just think of those extra hours you’ll have back!

Expandable Designs

Busy lives, shorter attention spans and information overload has made it more difficult for marketers to compete for people’s attention. Expandable designs provide the opportunity for designers to communicate a message in a more interactive format. Clearly display the key information on the part of the design visible and allow your audience to click to expand either within a design or outside of the fixed size.

Illustrations and Colorful Icons 

Illustrations allow an audience to interpret their own meaning, while icons convey a message quickly and clearly. Both act as powerful visual communication tools for designers and marketers. Icons and illustrations are also vital for accessibility as they provide visual cues for disabled visitors.


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Reach your Audience on Multiple Channels, with just one Design

With Flexitive exports, you can reach your audience on multiple channels, with just one design.

Flexitive designs can be easily exported to all major file formats including HTML5, JPG, GIF & Video for social, email, display advertising, and digital signage. 

With the flexibility to choose the best format for every design and platform, you’ll not only add a new dimension to your marketing campaigns but also increase the quality, consistency, and performance of your visual communications across all your channels.

GIF and video (MP4) exports are available under our Teams and Enterprise solutions.

For a full guide, check out our tutorial articles Export to Video and Export to GIF.

Deeper Dives with Flexitive Design Cloud Tutorial Videos

Flexitive Deeper Dives tutorials provide you with in-depth coverage of topics such as Text and Webfonts, Video Components and the Carousel Widget. You’ll learn about all aspects of text in your design, uploading and embedding videos, and different Carousel Widget options.

Deeper Dives:

Text & Webfonts

Learn more about formatting text boxes or specific words/characters within a text box (inline text). Access 700+ free web fonts and over 20,000 paid fonts, or how to upload your own custom font. Also, more advanced text options like scrolling text.

Video Components

Learn how to upload videos to Flexitive Design Cloud and add them to a Flexitive HTML5 page, or embed a Youtube video. Customize playback options like autoplay, show/hide controls etc. with no coding.

Carousel Widget

The Flexitive Carousel Widget allows you to quickly add images or videos into a rotating responsive carousel.

  • Set it to swipe left/right (via mouse or touch!)
  • Change the type of transition animation between slides

For more videos and Flexitive Design Cloud Tutorials – Essentials check out our YouTube Channel youtube.com/flexitive.

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Learn the Essentials with Flexitive Design Cloud Tutorial Videos

Flexitive Design Cloud Tutorials are a quick and easy way to learn how to build designs in Flexitive.

In minutes, you can learn about the basics of Flexitive, from creating your first size, adding animations, exporting designs and more.

Flexitive tutorials are handy when onboarding a new team member or for a quick refresher.

Flexitive Tutorial Videos:

  1. Creating Your First Size

You can learn how to build your first size in Flexitive.

  • Dropping your high resolutions assets (jpg, transparent png, gif, mp4 etc) to the canvas
  • Setting a background color and image
  • Cropping assets
  1. Activating Unlimited Sizes

You can learn how to create a single design that adapts to unlimited sizes – whether specific fixed sizes, full-screen sizes or fully responsive designs!

  1. Animate Your Design

Learn the basics of animation in Flexitive.

  • Adding keyframes
  • Choosing an animation for each element (applies across all sizes)
  1. Generate Live Preview Pages

Learn how to generate a live preview page URL that you can send to anyone for feedback or approvals.

  1. Exporting a Design for any Size & Channel

Learn how to export your design for any size, channel and file format. Flexitive automatically optimizes your images for each size, and even optimizes code so that it works everywhere.

  1. Making Design Variations Fast

Learn how to create more design variations really fast.

  • Swap an asset (eg image, video etc) with any other asset, that will change across all sizes.
  • Change an animation in one click (that applies on all sizes instantly).
  • Generate a live preview page of your design variation.

For more videos and Flexitive Design Cloud Tutorials – Deeper Dives check out our YouTube Channel youtube.com/flexitive.