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New Adventures in Web Design 2012
My digest post about New Adventures in Web Design conference - The Job, The Process and Creativity – NAConf 2012 is now up on uBelly. I’m now on board with uBelly to cover conferences and other webby stuff. This post is very … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, design, job, New Adventures in Web Design, process, role
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Designing For Emotion
I bought Designing For Emotion as part of the A Book Apart deal, alongside Mobile First. After listening to Jeffery Zeldman talking about the release of these books with Dan Benjamin on The Big Web Show, and hearing how they … Continue reading
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Tagged beyond usability, book, design, emotional design, usability, user experience
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A Practical Guide to Designing the invisible
After reading Mark Boulton’s A Practical Guide to Designing For The Web and Andy Clarke’s Hardboiled Web Design, I was keen to read another Five Simple Steps’ design book. Robert Mills’ A Practical Guide to Designing the invisible definitely didn’t disappoint. … Continue reading
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Notes from Ampersand conference — My Digest
I’ve tried to condense my notes from Ampersand conference into a more useful digest. More than anything this, like my live-tweeting at past conferences, is really a selfish activity to help me absorb the ideas from Ampersand better by reflecting … Continue reading
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Tagged ampersand conference, comic sans, conference, content, context, CSS, CSS3, emotion, event, fonts, modular scale, process, readability, responsive web design, systems, user experience, web fonts
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Notes from Ampersand conference — Actual Notes
For those who wanted my notes in an undigested, scatterbrained form, here’s images from my notebook. (My digest is available too.) I’m a mind-mapping fiend, so I try to link with arrows where I can. Where new points were begun … Continue reading
Notebooks and Getting Over Moleskine
I’m a notebook and sketchbook-aholic. Actually I’m addicted to stationery of any kind. Pens, pencils, post-it notes. It’s incredibly easy to convince myself I need these items when I mostly don’t. Notebooks and sketchbooks (and maybe some nice accompanying pens), … Continue reading
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Tagged ideas, Leuchtturm1917, Moleskine, notebooks, sketching, stationery, wireframes
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Design work is 50% visual, 50% justification
After I finished my last post about Design Tips for Developers, it really struck me how much I wrote to justify my design. I wasn’t just writing tips saying ”do this, it’s good“, ”don’t do this, it’s bad.” I put time and effort … Continue reading
Stuck on a design
After discussing Dribbble and Forrst, and my latest post that looked at criticism in design, I’ve been thinking a lot more about how feedback features in my design process. Getting stuck When I used to get stuck on a design, … Continue reading
Good old designer snobbery is alive and kicking
There’s one thing that I hate about being a designer and that’s the snobbery. Most, if not all, designers are a little bit guilty of looking down on other people’s work. Comments such as “Pah! They used Comic Sans” or … Continue reading