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Designing this site, part 2: Values, goals and requirements

July 24, 2009January 5, 2012

A week of hard client work behind me and it’s time to be my own client. And just as my clients would tell you when I badger them with the questions I’ll be asking myself, the first part of good design is not necessarily the fun part. It’s about asking questions, sometimes difficult, but always […]

Posted in Creativity, Design, Redesign, WebTagged Design, goals, process, Redesign, requirements

Designing this site: prologue

July 16, 2009January 5, 2012

I don’t blog much. Which is weird, because I have plenty of things I’d love to just get down “on paper”, so to speak. But I’m a designer. I love beautiful things. This blog in its current form doesn’t fall into that category. That makes it less enticing to deal with. Fact is, client work […]

Posted in Creativity, Design, Redesign, WebTagged Design, process, webdesign

Paul Boag exposes web designer secrets

February 5, 2009January 5, 2012

The unholy and disgraceful Bad Boy of the Web, Paul Boag, has tarnished the good names of all web designers worldwide by exposing our deepest, darkest secrets (we have ten of them, BTW) in masked-magician fashion. This blasphemy was brought to our attention by an obviously saddened and shocked Andy Clarke, who also informed us […]

Posted in Babble, Design, Humor, WebTagged Babble, Humor, sarcasm, web design

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