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May 16, 2009 Comments: (0):active, use it damn it…

After reading a few books on usability I had an “ah ha” moment. We spend so much time trying to make our websites and applications usable, yet so many [...] Continue Reading…



May 8, 2009 Comments: (0)Sexy Web Design by Elliot Jay Stocks - Review

I was the lucky winner of a giveaway over on Monday by Noon awhile back, my prize of the new book Sexy Web Design by author, speaker and designer Elliot Jay Stocks. I was thrilled as I had planned to by the book anyways and it looked like a great read, not to mention that I am a fan of Elliots work and his previous cohorts, Carsonified.



April 24, 2009 Comments: (2)Reverse Developing Website Strategy

The common approach to building a website is in my opinion, backwards. Meaning that we all have a tendancy to think about details and plan towards the big picture rather than think about the big picture and plan the details. While this may seem like a completely reasonable method of approach it actually short-sights more website projects.



April 18, 2009 Comments: (4)Website Art Direction Redux

Despite Art Direction having been discussed as early 2004, it is now gaining more attention as designer Jason Santa Maria has proven it’s use through his blog and Noel [...] Continue Reading…



April 9, 2009 Comments: (3)The future of news, print vs internet

A friend of mine has been doing research into the current state of print media and the slow rise of the internet as it’s replacement. I was asked to [...] Continue Reading…



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