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Some thoughts on “designing in the browser”

December 23, 2014January 9, 2015

Ever since Andrew Clarke’s presentation The Walls Come Tumbling Down—which is the first time I heard of the term—the idea of “designing in the browser” has increasingly become a point of discussion and debate. As one of those crazies who doesn’t use an image editor (like Photoshop) to create design comps, I’m often lumped into […]

Posted in Babble, Creativity, CSS, Design

Responsive Design Sameness

March 21, 2014September 23, 2014

Sometimes, when discussions are really interesting, I find it hard not to chime in. Mark Boulton tweeted: I wonder if #RWD looks the way it does because so many projects aren’t being run by designers, but by front-end dev teams. Then the fine Mr. Tim Kadlec wrote a great post, followed by observations from Susan […]

Posted in Creativity, Design, Responsive

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

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