Tag Archives: design
An inspiration a day keeps the boring designs away
As a designer you are all too aware that if you stop inputting inspiration into your brain mix there soon comes stagnation. Inspiration is the fuel that keeps you going as a designer. For me, this comes in 2 forms ‘design’ in sense of things I see and websites I view and colour. Colour to me can be just inspiring as seeing a complete design. I’m a hoarder of screen-shots and links for inspiration and with that comes 2 new sites announcements.
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Coping with design by committee without pulling your hair out
In an ideal world as a designer you’d only ever have one client, in reality you probably have more. Design by committee can be a hellish situation for any designer, but there are various things you can do to make sure the process is easier.
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Ding Dong the photoshop only web designer should be dead
37 signals wrote this week ‘Web designers should do their own HTML / CSS’. This post basically follows thinking I’ve had for a long time where by you shouldn’t call yourself a web designer if you can not code HTML/ CSS. As expected there are some pretty strong for and against opinions in the comments. In the past I’ve been fairly vocal myself about my opinion on this and also experienced in my working life the frustration of making up a design from someone who doesn’t understand the web as a medium or HTML / CSS.
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Tagged design, development 15 Comments
