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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
Posted in Design, Events
Also tagged creativity, job, New Adventures in Web Design, process, role
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Mobile First
Continuing on with my chapter-a-day, last week I finished reading the brilliant Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski. Mobile design and development has gained momentum over the last few years; with responsive design and designers regularly going giddy over iPhone app … Continue reading
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
Posted in Design, Reviews
Also tagged beyond usability, book, emotional design, usability, user experience
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Insites Tour Brighton
Insites is a mini tour of four cities in the UK where Keir Whitaker and Elliot Jay Stocks present discussions with well-known people from the web/tech industry. I was lucky enough to go to the first evening in Brighton on … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Also tagged clients, conference, contract, education, freelancing, industry, labels, titles, user experience
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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
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Also tagged clients, decisions, justification, school, value, work, writing
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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
dConstruct 2010
I was a bit skeptical about dConstruct at first. The idea of a conference based on ‘creativity and ideas’ made me worry it might be a bit pretentious but I was convinced by a lot of friends on Twitter that … Continue reading