Designers and Clients: Finding Common Ground >
As a business owner there is always going to be a tension between taking on work to pay for your overhead and taking on work because it’s exciting and challenging. More…
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Ten essentials for designers before they start a project >
If you’re a designer then you probably have had a bad client or two. By bad client I mean someone who doesn’t pay on time, or at all, or maybe More…
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Recession myths >
In our Designer’s How To Guides we talk about excuses and myths that business development people use to justify not making the sale. Over the last few months we have More…
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Greatest Art Rules >
If you are an artist or designer these are the rules to live by (watch out though, new one rules will be created soon).
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Web prototypes through the eyes of a car designer >
To me, building web prototypes must be a lot like designing cars. Step1: First you sketch out the basic layouts and place the essential functional elements in their ideal locations. More…
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Web Marketing Strategy >
A small service company contacted me a few weeks ago. The owner wanted to discuss updating his online business presence and marketing strategy. We had a few lengthy discussions about More…
Advent of the Blog Based Site >
There’s an undeniable trend in cropping up on the world wide web these days. The blog-based site is gaining momentum – I found articles which present some strong arguments in More…
CEO’s need a design education >
Bob Sutton, the author of The No Asshole Rule has been suggesting that CEO’s should be the considering a Masters in Fine Arts and not just an MBA. With design More…
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Defining and Developing a Web Prototype Design: Part 2 >
From HTML/CSS to full prototype Having created your template pages you can begin to build out the complete prototype. As for templates we start with the home page, a few More…
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Defining and Developing a Web Prototype Design: Part 1 >
I’ve had a few calls recently from bloggers and writers with requests to clearly define web prototype design. Broadly speaking, all product prototypes are living versions of the idea you More…
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Copy cat designs >
I’m not sure which site came first, NotchUp or GrandCentral but it looks like these sites were designed by the same people.
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Applying Agile Methodology to Web Prototyping >
I can’t imagine what the end product would look like if I tried to bake a cake with my eyes closed. But that’s exactly what you’re doing when you build More…
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