The kind folks at Gerard Design sent me to Webvisions 2006 last week in Portland. In particular, I was excited to be able to attend Jared Spool’s all-day session on “Design and Usability Techniques for Successful Websites“. He discussed a variety of subjects, but I was particularly interested his thoughts for designing for scent, writing [...]
When Adobe bought Macromedia, my first thought was: what happens to Macromedia Fireworks? In terms of web production, Photoshop/ImageReady can’t touch it. Fearing the worst, I made a brief effort last Fall to get up to speed on image slicing and such with ImageReady. It was such a convoluted mess I figured I’d wait until [...]
After over three years of the exact same design, I’ve finally reworked my site a bit and started using a real blogging tool – WordPress. I still have quite a bit of work to do (update my design portfolio, link my generative songs, some CSS tweaks, upload 3 years of posts, etc.) but it’s a [...]
For the folks who know me – you people can stop the unemployment jokes now. I have been hired by Gerard Design in Naperville. They’ve been in business since 1992, doing print/identity/branding work, and are now looking to expand into interactive design. This should be an exciting position for me, since in addition to designing [...]
First the Macromedia/Adobe thing, now Apple announces they’re switching to Intel chips. Working on the web is chaos this year (even moreso than usual). Now I have to admit: the Adobe/Macromedia buyout is going to affect me more than the Apple/Intel announcement. I love designing with Macromedia Fireworks, and I sense that program is doomed [...]
Just a quick post: I’m not going to use Blogger for my site. I like it’s simplicity a lot, but it won’t do a few things I want to do. Namely, being able to browse posts by category, and to associate related links with each post. For example, if I’m going to Coachella soon, I’d [...]