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Working in web: What are your design principles?
Whether considering your own site or somebody else’s, how do you make decisions about its development? What are the underlying principles that inform your entire approach to web design?
Working in web: Want a job in web design? Become your own boss
If you want a job in web design there are two options. First, get a job working for somebody else. Second, set up on your own. But which is better?
Working in web: An interview with Hatched.fm
I seem to be doing a lot of video interviews lately. This one is for Hatched.fm and talks about everything from building community to what exactly my job is!
Short Audio Tips : Crafting the client experience
Are you ensuring your clients have an enjoyable, engaging and satisfying experience when they work with you?
Question & Answers : Jack of all trades or specialist?
Should designers be more multidisciplinary? I.e know UI, layout, graphics, copy, HTML etc??
Working in web : Are you a Drupal ninja (I hope not)
Are you a Drupal Ninja? If so, then stop reading this, because you are make believe. Programmers are not ninja, rockstars or any other stupid metaphor. Why do job ads always insist on using such ridic…
Short Audio Tips : Talking about client relations
When I was speaking at DIBI this year, I was excited to discover that Dr Susan Weinschenk was also speaking. Susan has a PhD in Psychology and was instrumental in introducing me to the benefits of th…
Working in web : Why you should be procrasti-working
I leant a new word when I was in Vancouver for Interlink last month. The word was procrasti-work. The term was coined by Jessica Hische, a talented letterer and illustrator with a plethora of side pr…
Short Audio Tips : Side projects can cure our woes
Personal projects that we run in our spare time can be a great way of improving the kind of work we win and ensuring more of our ideas are implemented.
Working in web : Well that's nice: Client Centric Web Design works
At Headscape we don’t tend to go in for awards. It’s not really our thing. However, every once in a while a client will submit a site we have developed for them. Recently the RAF Benevole…
Working in web : Dealing with the dickheads
Many of us are put off of contributing to the web community for fear of criticism. What can be done to stop the negativity?
Working in web : Contributing to the web
For me the web has always been about contributing rather than consuming. Don’t get me wrong I learn a huge amount from the web everyday. However, the web was always meant to be a medium you con…
Working in web : Starter kit for web design freelancers
I don’t seem to be able to shut up about working with clients at the moment. Not only is there my book “Client Centric Web Design,” I also cover this subject as part of a series of v…