After a ridiculously extensive amount of time, mikull.com has completely relaunched. I’ve been working under the covers since the summer of 2006 to launch something new; and after 2 other rather complete redesigns left unpublished, I’ve settled on our new look & feel.
This is not to say I reinvented the wheel with this blog [...]
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It’s this simple: if you don’t understand the fundamentals of landscape painting, you don’t understand the fundamentals of web design. In fact, if you don’t grok landscapes you won’t possess the requisite understanding for working in photography, music composition, ballet, filmmaking, architecture or any other art or design endeavor.
Web designers are looking for information on [...]
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Something is skewed and backward. So far as I can tell, the Web design community is hopelessly distracted by technical fetish. So-called or self-proclaimed designers are refusing to touch on matters of visual design, while at [...]
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When I’m assigned to a design project, the contract the client signs shows that they’re paying for a specific amount of design time. But the specified hours are no indication of how long I’ll actually work on the design. Problem? Nope. It could be a problem if clients were [...]
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Designing for the Web, as I see it, is a multi-layered process. It’s a process in which each layer addresses specific design needs related to client aims, brand characteristics and site user habits and expectations. Sadly, the last of these layers to be applied in the process, [...]
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There has been too much nonsense spouted about the effectiveness of certain successful companies’ websites and it’s time to correct it. Those who say that poorly designed websites are partly responsible for some companies’ success are feeding you a load of crap. And too many of you are eating it up.
Stop it. Bad design harms [...]
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Finally, the beginning of my blogs on the HighEdWebDev2005 track sessions that I attended. The first, and perhaps most jolting I attended was Born to be Wired; presented by Mark Greenfield, Director of Web Services from the State University of New York at Buffalo. The following is the sessions abstract.
The ongoing communications revolution combined with [...]
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The oldies continue to be goodies — or rather, baddies — in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005. This is not to say these are the worst things developers are doing on the web- but that there’s value in reminding ourselves of past findings and raising their priority on [...]
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Over the past months, everything about interface worth its salt had three words in mouth, three little words they were screaming to their unsuspecting public: “Less is more”. Interfaces needed to be cleaner, have less buttons and, if buttons there were, these needed to be bigger, simpler, brighter. Dubbed by some the Fischer-Price style, this [...]
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It is my experience that design seldom can do much good for most second-
and third-tier companies and organizations. The reason for this is that
these sorts of entities almost always fail themselves before they even
enlist the services of a designer or a design agency.
More often than not, companies and organizations first need business
consulting before they need [...]
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