Archive for the “Web Design” category

Cognizance & Collaboration

by kartooner on June 26, 2011

My designer friend (and for­mer co-worker), Jay Moore, posted a link to his Face­book on Why devel­op­ers can­not afford to ignore design. Here was my ini­tial response: I think what’s best is each role [design and devel­oper] is cog­nizant of what (…)

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by kartooner on May 22, 2011

Most of the prob­lems fac­ing orga­ni­za­tions that are doing a redesign could be avoided by approach­ing the design dif­fer­ently. This means focus­ing on the mean­ing­ful ele­ments in the first place and set­ting up met­rics to prop­erly eval­u­ate what needs to be (…)

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Creative Redemption

by kartooner on January 6, 2010

There are times when a design con­cept of mine fails to boil over in awe­some­ness and at that point I throw a sheet over it, shove it in a cor­ner next to the mutated Chihuahua-Goat™ and ask myself why I even attempted it. It happens (…)

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Project 52

by kartooner on December 29, 2009

I’m chal­leng­ing myself to a goal: to write some­thing new once or more per week for one year. It doesn’t seem like a lofty goal really, not at all actually.