Design Fidelity – the longer the publication timeframe the higher the design fidelity. Daily newspapers have a low fidelity. Monthly magazines have a high fidelity.
The better the design:
He’s talking about iLike.com where, instead of getting a form to enter artists he likes, he was presented with a grid of artists (picture + title) that he could select bands he likes. At the bottom of the page he could see more artists or he could go to the homepage. Very much like Netflix.
He clicked through 10 pages of artists. The visual nature of the list piqued his curiousity.
I’m talking about pain-free design signoff for your clients, not you! If the client is happy, you’re happy.
–Paul Boag
Paul Boag uses his storytelling style to walk you through the bad side of how most designers go through the design process with clients and then offers his ideas on how to improve the process.
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.
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.)
I know. On a Monday instead of a Friday right?
I thought I’d lead off with one of the funnier typography related videos that I’ve seen in a while.
I decided to create a pixel map of the US. Why? Because that’s just how I roll.
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.
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.
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.