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What to Expect When Working With Me
I strive to make the process of getting your new website up and running as easy and stress-free as possible. Over my 20+ year history of designing and building things for the web, I’ve honed my strategies for ensuring that my clients are always in the loop. Communication When working on a website, I provide […]
Read MoreCommunicating Website Design to Developers
Where we’ve gone recently as an industry is to develop overly-featured and unnecessary products for design…
Read MoreDesigners Should Just Learn to Code
There is an ever-increasing number of web prototyping tools out there. From Adobe XD, to Invision, to Figma. And the number of apps within this niche seems to grow daily. Every posting for a potential project seems to list a need for knowing one, or a couple of these…
Read MoreWhy Do Stock Photo Companies Suck?
I have a growing distaste for stock photo companies. I remember trying to cancel my monthly subscription with Bigstockphoto.com — which took two tries and a call to their support. When canceling, they have three different prompts to ask if you’re sure, and apparently on one of those three screens, I clicked that I wasn’t, […]
Read MoreData: The End of Web Design as an Art
I tested the color of a button on my company’s website to see if changing its color would change the amount of signups that this particular website received. It did. This leaves me feeling a bit uncomfortable as a designer. The issue is that I liked the color of the under-performing button better. I could […]
Read MoreRandom Video Backgrounds
I don’t know how early Paypal adopted the video-as-banner-background trend in comparision with other websites. It was one of the earliest places that I personally saw this design pattern appear. I have mixed feelings on using videos in that fashion. Perhaps Paypal does as well. Today when logging into Paypal I noticed that their video […]
Read MoreDo Bounce and Conversion Rates Matter?
I attended an interesting usability lecture/meetup today, with a talk by Jared Spool. I enjoyed the talk — it definitely got me thinking, but I disagreed with more than a few points. Overall, I gathered that the takeaway from the discussion was to emphasize that you need to focus on the things that matter, and […]
Read MoreCan We Please Stop This Infinite Scroll Madness
Several years ago, a trend started to rise. I believe it was perpetrated by Pinterest, but perhaps it doesn’t matter who started it…
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