Why is defining design so confusing for designers? Do that many of us not even know what we’re doing, or is it that we’re just trying to be all things to all people? Whatever the reason, it seems that each designer who weighs in on the matter has a slightly (or vastly) different take on [...]
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I majored in 2 things in college: computer science and fine art. Being an art major tore me apart- it was only when I had taken my design capabilities to the limit that I achieved anything at all; and in my studies, I was forced (kicking and screaming) to study color theory. Little did i [...]
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All of these things are probably true of the work you do online:
Your web site is a tiny piece of a much larger experience.
Nobody sees your web site the way you expected. Few use your content the way you intended.
Everything you create online is being ripped apart and recombined with other stuff by thousands of [...]
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It’s somewhat anticlimactic at this point, since we’ve been trying to get everything right for a month now- but between hardware failures and system bumps -somehow the new Seton Hall website is at long last getting back on track for the 150th anniversary of the University. Tonight we re-propagated the DNS to our CommonSpot server [...]
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The web is currently torn by two strong forces, seemingly irresistible and irreconcilable. On the one hand, usability and interface engineering argue for simplicity, consistency, and clarity – for a starkly functional minimalism. On the other, emerging web standards and technologies nourish a continuing efflorescence of new approaches to web design. On the [...]
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successful design can be attributed to many known truths. here is some that i believe.
Everything in life is ephemeral, don’t expect anything you design to live forever.
Use technology, don’t let it use you.
Be aware of what you make and what it says, because people live and die through all of the images we create.
We need [...]
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for months and months now you’ve all heard me mention i’ve been working hard on a huge seton hall web project. today came the first real announcement and explanation to not only the seton hall community but to any outside visitors- the following message comes directly from public relations and has been published on the [...]
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how often is it that you’re plugging away at a design only to realize you aren’t enjoying the work whatsoever? commonly friends ask me why i’m not making webpages on the side for extra money. the answer is two-fold: first of all, think about what you do 8 hours a day, 5 days a [...]
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The left-to-right and top-to-bottom real estate that fills the browser window on a computer monitor is a very delicate and treacherous space. While this idea rings true in a host of contexts, it is especially true for web designers and the individuals and companies that hire them.
The task of designing a web page and/or [...]
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Schools of thought are always hotbeds of ideological controversy: there are always exceptions to the rule, deviations from the principal learning curve. In creative education this a particularly thorny issue: How to teach discipline and promote invention? Arguably, designers who were trained to understand two-dimensional composition by crafting eight-by-eight inch plaka boards were more conscious [...]
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