Published on
August 11, 2009 in
Design;
One of the problems with the current market is that being (just) a designer, in the meaning of ability of “drawing pretty pictures” is not enough if you want to be actually able to sell your stuff to someone. In this post I’ll try to round-up some skills modern designer needs to embrace if he wants a success in the market. With a ‘designer’ in this post I mean people who need to work with applied design, like industrial, print or web designers, but some of the points should work well for everyone. Anyway, here’s the list.
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Published on
August 8, 2009 in
Design and Web;
When I was rethinking the design for my blog, drawing grids on paper etc., I was struck by the very basic question – “Should I still care about optimizing for 1024×768″? First question, about optimizing for IE6, I answered a while ago, by simply not doing it, because I honestly think that IE6 should become a thing of the past as soon as possible. But – in the era of widescreens and double screen setups, should we still take 1024×768 as the basic resolution to start with?
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I’m happy to announce that small project I’ve been working on during past few days – ITSBA has gone live. ITSBA is a local alliance of (currently six) small webdevelopment companies and teams targeted on helping each other grow and improve visibility of small companies in the local market. My work in the project was basically everything — starting from brand & logo design, ending at XHTML/CSS for the ‘flyer’ site. Nothing really complex, but I had quite short timespan to do it all from scratch.
Anyway, I’m happy with the overall results, so are the people I made it for. What do you think?
If you make a mistake in real life and mentally press Command/Ctrl+Z, then you’re a web designer.
Just found this in my RSS and found it quite amusing, but also bitterly true. Thuvien, Israeli webdeveloper, published this great article about how to recognize you’re a web or graphic designer, just in case you weren’t sure, on his blog.
Few things that we, people connected to the web from the backdoor, know, but we don’t speak about very often.
