My biggest client for the past year has been a TV manufacturer. I spend most of my time not designing for a computer display, where a single user sits about a foot away from the screen with a keyboard and mouse, but rather a 50 inch display where multiple users sit ten or more feet [...]
I went to an AIGA meet up last night, a series of events called SHIFT: a Green Salon, where speakers get 5 minutes to present something related to sustainability and design. A good write up/summary can be found here. The question is simple: What does sustainable design mean?
It’s GREEN!
OK, jokes aside, what does it mean? [...]
It has been a long time coming, but I finally threw up my hands and dove head first into Drupal development with a large project for the one of my clients. I have typically used WordPress as a CMS tool for small sites, but this project needed a heavy lifter, and Drupal beckoned.
As a designer, [...]
People sometimes ask me where I find the motivation to do certain things, like waking up at 5:15am for strength training classes, working overtime to start this business, doing yoga daily, writing a book. But they’re asking the wrong question.
It’s not where is my motivation, but what is my motivation. Motivation isn’t a place, it [...]
Go get it. I feel like one of these needs to have a ton of huge logos and starbursts on it. Lots of great tips, and for all its bad usability, it’s quite nice…
I have a potential new client asking me a pretty simple question: Why? Why should I pay a good amount of money to redesign my circa 1998 website, which already contains all of our vital information, which is all anybody is really looking for… right?
I should be ready for this question and yet I find [...]
