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Once again, I read a designer’s post telling readers that “the user is no longer a spectator”.
How is this still a thing?
The user has never been a spectator.
Most businesses have an About page of some sort, and most of them are not making optimal use of it.
Most of the time (but not all of the time), a website background should stay in the background. It should provide just enough color, just enough interest and style, and set the stage for your foreground content to do the talking.
You mean this one?
Well, I do mention “Aesthetics,” and look! There’s “Brand Tone”… that’s sort of designy. But how do all those rather un-designy components add up to the glorious space in the middle?
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to attend a full day seminar presented by SEO Seminars Los Angeles. The seminar took participants beyond the fundamentals of search engine optimization, and gave us a taste of how deep a business can dig in the quest to acquire more web search traffic. I was particularly interested in learning more about SEO from a designer’s perspective.
A bakery client wanted to take their popular product to the next level and asked for a full business rollout, including brand identity, website, packaging, advertising and product ideas.
Here’s a schematic from my product development notes. See any of these images in a larger size by […]
A landing page is like the spine of a book in a book store (extreme example). Potential buyers are scanning the shelves. Their eyes pass over your book—for how long? seconds?
It’s such a tiny little thing, but it wouldn’t have happened without a strong sense of identity for the designers at Vimeo. Details are where the magic happens. Even when they are not consciously noticed, their impact is huge.
Way to go, Vimeo!
This tiny skull icon I did awhile back for Model Mayhem still makes me smile. It was part of a photo upload ui design project.
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This site was drastically redesigned not only for appearance, but also:
to entice users to visit more areas of the site to promote partner sites to lay groundwork for current and future […]
As part of a redesign I did for this DIY community-focused website (which has since been completely redesigned again), we agreed it would be fun to create seasonal treatments for the header and logo (logo design is by Joanne Minerbi). Here are a few examples (click the […]
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