Posts Tagged ‘Design’

New site design

I’m redesigning my site. If you’ve been around here at all, you’re probably thinking “but Chat, you just did that in December!” Well, yes, I did. But that was more of a triage. Taking a broken website and fixing it so that it had the bare minimum usability.

One thing I’m very proud of with the current design: total images for the entire site (not counting any images I add for specific posts, like this one) are about 3.7kb. You read that right. 3.7 kilobytes. Not 370 kilobytes. Not 37 kilobytes. 3.7.

March 7th, 2010
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10 Sources for WordPress Design Inspiration

Creating a website can be a daunting task, especially if you’ve never done it before. More and more people are turning to blog software like WordPress to get a site up and running with very little effort and even less know-how. Free themes let them quickly choose a theme that works for their needs, whether those needs are running a business or talking about their cat (I’m obligated to mention talking about cats whenever talking about blogging in a broad sense. Thank you for that media.)

February 14th, 2010
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Type in Motion

I know. On a Monday instead of a Friday right?

Neutra Face : An Ode On A Typeface (A Bearded Poker Face Parody)

I thought I’d lead off with one of the funnier typography related videos that I’ve seen in a while.

January 18th, 2010
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Pixel map of the United States

I decided to create a pixel map of the US. Why? Because that’s just how I roll.

October 25th, 2009
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Apple Preview PDF Bug

For a long time I had an ongoing problem optimizing PDFs in CS3 (I believe the problem occurs with CS2 and possibly other versions too). After a file had been optimized it wouldn’t display or print properly from Apple Preview. Elements of the PDF would either be missing or only partially displayed. I found documentation of the bug online but in each case the person said there was no known workaround.

October 8th, 2009
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Asking the Right Questions

A lot of people think designers just make things pretty. We don’t. First and foremost we solve problems. Problems that usually start with a question and, sometimes, we need to ask ourselves if we’re asking the right question.

July 13th, 2009
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Found: Chocolate Lab

Monday I came home to find a chocolate lab wandering the street with no tags. He was a friendly guy. Followed me to my house and, when I opened the door, walked right in and made himself at home.

June 10th, 2009
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Designers: Design Your Resumes!

I’m reading through resumes and cover letters, looking for freelancers to add to our pool of talent at Spiceworks. And most of the resumes suck. They are horribly designed. (Two pages in all caps, seriously? And you call yourself a designer?) As a whole they have terrible leading, headers, use of white space, suffer from poor font choices, and are riddled with typos, misspellings, grammatical errors, missing punctuation, inconsistent punctuation on lists, and on and on.

June 2nd, 2009
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UX Team of One Panel (Unedited Notes from Presentation)

These are the unedited notes I took during the SXSW panel. Sub-lists aren’t indented so I’ll need to come back and format later. No guarantee I’ll actually do that so hopefully she’ll publish her presentation.

Put away the computer
Start with a six-up template:

A piece of paper with six thumbnail boxes

[...]

March 15th, 2009
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