Just noticed a small little detail in my OS X Dock this afternoon that I had never noticed before. Not only did the designers at Apple take the time to design beautiful elements at the top level, they also took into account how they wanted the elements to interact with other things on the page.…
Contrary to popular belief, there is some thought process and logic behind what I do. Yes, my job is still to make you look better; please let me continue to do my job. But in the process of making you look better I have to bear in mind that the prettiest option may not always…
More, please. http://www.nikibrown.com/designoblog/2009/03/03/the-worlds-ugliest-websites/ I could add quite a bit to the list, maybe some day I will compile my own.
Remember New Coke? I was a tad young but I do remember the stirring that it caused when the Coca-Cola company decided to “update” their coke flavor over two decades ago and the fact that it didn’t take them long to re-introduce Coke Classic. It was a bad move on Coke’s part to take their…
I get the computer equivalent of a funny look when “Internet people” find out I don’t have a Facebook or Myspace account. In fact, I get quite a few funny looks when I mention it to live people as well. There are many reasons why I have chosen not to sign up for an account…
Part of my job as a purveyor of awesome for my clients is to help them treat their clients nicely through good usability in their products. The following .PDF shows some examples of just the opposite. Bad Usability Calendar 2009 (3.5MB)
I am thoroughly enjoying motion graphics and videos like this recently. Add it to my ‘if I had 6 months to learn and a client willing to spend thousands on it,’ list of things to do. http://www.trollback.com/plus/16/TED.html It’s been a heavy dose of design this week. You’re either really lucky or I need to look…
When a typeface gets its own advertisement, it has to be good. Example: you’ve never seen a Comic Sans ad, I’m just saying…
I think Paul Boag is stealing my clients: You need to take control of the design process. Its your site and you should get the design you want. The role of the designer is to implement your idea. Do not allow him to drag you down into endless discussions about ‘users needs’, ‘accessibility’ and ‘usability’.…
Our mail courier is a tad bit unreliable. There are days when he delivers the mail before noon but you can count on those days being the ones he only carries a fistful of bills. More often than not, he’s a post-lunch type of worker and recently I’ve even wondered if he’s decided an afternoon…
I would only actually use the word wicked if I was born and raised on the south side of Boston. And even then it’d sound much more like wick’d as in – wick’d smaht. But since I wasn’t, the title of this post is just copied and pasted from another article of a pretty wick’d…
Beautiful craftsmanship in these laptop cases. No price listed which probably means they’re as much as the MBP that fits inside. http://www.rainerspehl.com/project.php?nr=59
Nice list from Jeffrey Zeldman. Dealt with a few of them before but #2 is far and away the funniest thing on the list: Client shows you around the factory, introducing you to all his employees. Then, behind closed doors, tells you: ‚ÄúIf you do a bad job with this website, I‚Äôm going to have…
It’s exciting to me to see church media and their creators starting to get it. For far too long, the materials presented to the public were sub-par. I Am Second, gets it. A ministry that concerns itself with both substance and style. One of the best presentations in any field I have seen in a…
I noticed this evening that my feed wasn’t updating for the site. Of course it bugged me. Took me a couple of hours of code searching, bug hunting and racking my brain to think what changes I had made in the last 48 hours to finally figure out that a small piece of code I…
I would love to be able to conceptualize the detail in any one of these icons prior to construction of it. Amazing Illustrator work, re-affirms my need for a tablet. Not that I could produce anything on that level if I had one though.
Similar to owning a house, in the web business, you become easily tied to your web host. Fortunately, I bought good when I got in. In both house and web hosting. Unfortunately, being tied to my host as much as I am, I don’t have a whole lot of choice when places like Media Temple…
When I am slightly more coherent, my plan is to make a little bit longer of a write-up. Until then, welcome to my new Internet home. It has been a long time coming. Far too long. The freedom I speak of was the ability to create what I wanted, exactly the way I wanted it.…