Introduction to Notion for Creative Projects
Why Use Notion?
A course by Frances Odera Matthews , Certified Notion Consultant
Joined November 2021
About the video: Why Use Notion?
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll introduce the productive and creative use cases of Notion and its diverse target audience. You'll then apply these concepts to how you can build a profile page that celebrates your personality.”
In this video lesson Frances Odera Matthews addresses the topic: Why Use Notion?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Notion for Creative Projects. Learn how to combine Notion’s powerful no-code toolbox with design thinking to build pages with function, style, and heart.
Partial transcription of the video
“So in this lesson, we're going to be learning more about Notion and more about what we're going to be building in this course. Lots of courses teach you how to be productive with Notion. However, this course is going to teach you how to think creatively with Notion. We're going to be building a profile page very similar to the profile pages of the early 2000s, like Bebo and MySpace. And I really encourage you to have fun with it. You can either use this profile page for fun, for personal use, and just to practice your notion skills. Or you could actually go ahead and turn this into a portfo...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Notion for Creative Projects
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Web Development

Frances Odera Matthews
A course by Frances Odera Matthews
Frances Odera Matthews is a certified Notion consultant and the founder of The Notion Bar, an initiative focused on creating customized digital solutions and products for businesses. Originally from West Africa, Frances grew up in the UK and studied abroad in the US and Spain, exploring economics, design thinking, project management, and UX design across many different industries. Her multicultural and multidisciplinary background inspired a love for blending human experiences creatively and conceptualizing innovative solutions.
Through commissioned projects, Frances learned to take a step beyond Notion’s focus on productivity and explore its more artistic applications, creating functional yet aesthetic pages and templates in collaboration with The Notionette, aNotioneer, and many more. She has been featured as a speaker on podcasts such as Hunger Geeks, and she has also shared her knowledge with her community by leading seminars for No Code Lab and Notion’s Block by Block.
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