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 […]
Designing this site: prologue
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 […]
The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design
It seems to me that in the past 20 years, design creativity has become increasingly driven and limited by design tools, rather than the brains using them. This leads to a high level of design sameness and general lack of creativity. Many (web) design curricula are now tool-based, and I notice many designers skipping or […]