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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

The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design

July 14, 2008January 5, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Creativity, Design, Web

Web logo design 3.0

April 22, 2008January 5, 2012

Remember the Swoosh logos of Web 1.0? And the shiny-drop-shadow-reflection-gradient-badge-icon shit we’re still digesting today? Well, get ready for Network Graph logos for Web 3.0. At least, that’s my prediction. Assuming that Web 3.0 involves the emergence of practical Semantic Web applications, we can expect to see plenty of logos based on a visualization of […]

Posted in Creativity, Design, Sightings, WebTagged Design, graph, logo, network, tripit, twine, web 3.0

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