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Rating Tags
Learn what each tag might mean after your project gets rated
Alignment
The level of attention you pay to details can clearly been seen by your commitment to precisely aligned texts, shapes and images. Getting it right can become a good habit over long term, but it does require quite the trained eye. Our admins can spot even if just one pixel if off, in time with practice you will know how to satisfy their extremely high standards. What does it mean if you got this tag as feedback from an admin? Were your all elements vertically aligned? Were all ele
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Creativity
Creativity is only one of the important skills a great PowerPoint designer has. At KnowMore, creativity must always be aligned with the guidelines. Creativity is a prerequisite of making good visual enhancement for example **What does it mean if you got this tag as feedback from an admin? ** The slides you designed needed more to become effective. You need to work on your visual enhancement skills While inspiration slides are there to help you, relying predominantly on them, does not sho
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Images
An image can mean 1000 words. Good use of images are vital to good visual enhancement and using them correctly can boost your slides immensely. Our clients do not want us to use cliché and generic illustrations, we need to carefully select pictures, and implement them perfectly to keep them happy and coming back to us for more design work. Images can be raster or vector based (photographs or digital illustrations), and good image use starts with making sure you select the right one! What c
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Content mistakes
Content mistakes are one of the most serious mistakes you can make on a project. No client will forgive missing or changed information in the file, even if they have received the best design in the world. Incorrect content jeopardizes their job and our contact with them – so you must always make sure that the content in your project slides in impeccable. Admins usually only have time to do in detail content checking after a project has been approved, so you need to be 100% sure that everything i
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Speed
At KnowMore Platform we have an average speed expectation of our specialists. This is based on the speed of our admins and the best performing designer already working on our platform. In general, you should be able to create 1-3 visual enhancements per hours and 2-6 brush-up per hour. Admins use an automatic calculator to define how much time a project is worth, which also considers the difficulty of a given projects (detail level, content quantity, client expectations, repeating slides, etc)
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Slide frame
The slide frame is one of the most basic concepts in KnowMore Platform. Without it – positioning slide content correctly is impossible, and it is how we ensure a minimum standard and consistency of slide decks. What does it mean if you got this tag as feedback from an admin? You did not set a slide frame using guides on the project You used an incorrect slide frame on the projects You did not fill the slide frame perfectly with content and fit it perfectly to its edges (you are
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Icons
Good icon use is key to creating good slides that are easy to understand at first glance. They seem simple to use, but there are many small details that make getting them right complicated. What does it mean if you got this tag as feedback from an admin? You are using image files (jpeg, png, gif. etc.) instead of SVG format files You are not consistently using the same icon style across the project (eg.: line thickness, level of detail, filled or line icon style, hard edges vs smoo
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Rework required
This rating tag is given to those projects when after approval the admin had to rework the file themselves to bring it up to the client ‘s expectations. Usually, this tag is accompanied with other more specific feedback tags to explain what needed to be changed What does it mean if you got this tag as feedback from an admin? Your work needed further adjustments, that required more than 15 minutes of the admin’s time You did not implement the admin’s feedback (often the same repea
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Deadline
Reaching deadlines is why our clients keep coming back to us. Promptness is a must and in the management consulting world, a late presentation can mean the complete loss of a project. At KnowMore, behind the scenes admins are juggling multiple deadlines at any time of the day. If you miss your deadline, you are not just endangering your own project, but potentially other projects your admin is working on, because they will need to recalibrate their whole schedule and timing to save the day, and
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Communication
Good communication is vital to be able to work successfully remotely. During projects you communicate exclusively in writing through the chat interface of the platform with admins. It is your responsibility to make sure that exchange of information goes smoothly to ensure a good experience on any projects. What can it mean if you got this tag as feedback from an admin? Your communication style is not clear – the admin has to ask you more than once clarifying question to understand what
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Consistency
The devil is in the details. Slides not only have to perfect in themselves, but they also must be consistent with one another. The deck as such needs to be clearly perceived as a whole. You need to pay attention this this in particular when a project has repeated slides, slides with similar content that requires similar structures to be used. And don’t forget to make sure there is no jumping from slide to slide, everything is perfectly aligned, and the that the positions of footers, legends and
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Recreation of text
Notes to slides is a fairly common kind of project our clients send us. To do well on them you need to be able to decipher all kinds of writing, printed, handwritten, shorthand and even cursive. Not to mention the many different languages our send their work in to us. What does it mean if you got this tag as feedback from an admin? You had difficultly reading the text and a substantial amount is missing from the project You did not indicate the parts you could not understand with
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Text boxes on shapes
We at KnowMore must take care to send back projects to our clients that can be modified by theme without caused the design to change significantly. If a text is positioned together with a coloured background shape – it should always be inside it, not on top separately. Why? To make sure that if the client rewrites the text for any reason, the positioning of the text will not change compared to the shape itself. What does it mean if you got this tag as feedback from an admin? You pu
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Independence
Independence Independence is a key character trait that can lead to your ultimate success on KnowMore Platform. It is a combination of individual decision making, personal responsibility and perseverance. Admins cherish independent designers – as we can trust them to work on their own. An independent specialist uses their admins’ resources wisely. What does it mean if you got this tag as feedback from an admin? You ask questions you can easily get the answers for from the descrip
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Color usage
Colors are one of the key elements of a client’s branding and guideline. Getting them correct is the first step of creating a slide deck that looks right. If the colors are incorrect, the client will notice it immediately. What does it mean if you got this tag as feedback from an admin? You did not get the color scheme correct in your file Colors were implemented in a wrong hierarchy Highlight color was overused Colors for a specific purpose were incorrectly chosen The c
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Animations
Sometime clients require us to include animations on their projects. This does not happen often, but on the few occasions that it does, extra diligence is required. Animations can be anything from a transition to shape changes and position changed of content. Getting animations incorrect is also considered a content mistake. What does it mean if you got this tag as feedback from an admin? After redesigning the client slide, you did not include the animations on the original input
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Repost required
After the admin closed your project, it needed to be reposted so a different specialist could complete it and bring it up to the client’s expectations. Admins generally also add additional feedback in suchsituations. What does it mean if you got this tag as feedback from an admin? Your work needed further adjustments and was reposted so a different specialist could correct it. The amount of feedback and communication required for you to complete the project to the client’s satisf
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Availability
Availability is key to a smooth working experience for you and the admin. Just as admins try to get back to you as soon as possible with answers to your questions and feedback on your projects, we expect the same of you when you are on a project. Communication and managing time is key – please always keep you admin posted regarding your availability. If you endanger a project by not being available, you may be removed from it. What does it mean if you got this tag as feedback from an ad
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Follow instructions
On any project there are two kinds of instructions you are given as a designer, the initial static description and the dynamic feedback comments. Understanding and following through with both is vital to creating slides the clients will be happy with. What does it mean if you got this tag as feedback from an admin? You did not understand the initial static instructions and follow them correctly You had issues implementing the dynamic feedback comments You disregarded instructi
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Content understanding
Content is KING at KnowMore Platform. Not only must you as a specialist make sure that it is correct and flawless, but to be an exceptional designer understanding the client content is a key component. Only by understanding the content will you be able to notice the underlying structures that will give you an edge when it comes to visual enhancement for example. What does it mean if you got this tag as feedback from an admin? Your designs did not fit the content of the client You
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