Design (Web)
Web Design Best Practices Rap
This YouTube video features a rap about Web design best practices. I found this via The Rissington Podcast.
Important Skills for a Designer
Yesterday I read an article by John Dilsworth on NorthTemple. The article came about as John considered the question, “what is the one skill that can make the most positive impact in your profession?†John breaks down the work that designers are called to do into 3 categories
understanding
identifying
crafting
He goes on to talk about the work [...]
Design is in the Details
Here are some memorable points from Dan Rubin and Bryan Veloso’s talk, Design is in the Details from Webmaster Jam 2007, get MP3 of talk from RSS feed. I listened to this talk over my Christmas vacation. I listened to it again this morning. I had immediately applied several of the things they talked about [...]
Learning the Fundamentals of Design
One of my interests of late has been to learn the fundamentals of design. I was really challenged by this after doing an all day seminar with Luke W at UI12 in November. Here are some of the resources that have been helpful to me:
Site Seeing - Luke W’s book that covers much of the [...]
A Week of Web in Boston
I have been attending the UI12 Conference in Boston this week. I have been looking forward to this since last May when I signed up. I had attended the conference 2 years ago and it was really good.
I wish I had more time to process all that is being thrown at me. I would like [...]