That was exactly the question posed to me when I was asked to contribute to the recently released Get a Job Workshop. Creative Careers; How to Find your Way to a Creative Career in Advertising, Branding, Collateral, Digital, Experimental and More. I don’t really think of myself as a very active writer, as evinced by [...]
Hillman Curtis and what he meant to me. I was incredibly saddened last week to receive an email from a friend of mine letting me know that Hillman passed away on April 18, 2012. I hadn’t spoken to Hillman for a few years, so news of his passing came as a shock to me. During [...]
It’s been a little less than a month since I rolled out the new version on WordPress. Still very very happy. I’ve been mostly focusing on updating my neglected content. I swear I will never let myself get this behind on posting work again, this process is awful, but well worth it. The site is [...]
I’ll make this quick, I’ve been at this a while and I’m tired as shit right now. As you can tell, I redesigned the site, I took the opportunity to replatform from Textpattern to WordPress. I loved Textpattern when I started using it, and it served me really well. There’s a part of me that [...]
It’s pretty rare that it happens but every so often a situation comes along where it’s to a clients advantage to throw the brand standards book out the window.
I’ve been involved in a store launch over the past few weeks with a very brand conscious client, so much so that they’ve gone through at least two brand agencies with top flight client lists.
I am pleased to announce I’ve decided to join Gorilla Chicago as part of their design team. It’s been fun getting back into the consulting end of things, and I’ll continue to do some gigs on a limited basis, but working with the team at Gorilla over the past seven weeks has proven to me it’s a great fit.
O.K. If you want to go on pure market share, the “Crackberry” people will tell me to go screw. But until recently, the iPhone was really the only viable platform for delivering a great mobile computing experience. All points about lack of Flash support aside, it was really the only thing going. I’ve always maintained that Blackberry is a total disaster – and after trying to help a family member figure out how to use their Tour it’s no better. The Blackberry OS is utterly unusable. Unless something big happens, the Blackberry’s days are numbered.
It’s no secret to physical retailers that good user experience means good _customer_ experience. My friends in the retail world would probably be horrified referring to their customers as something clinical like a user. Somehow the old notion of putting your product online equating to automatic sales just doesn’t fly anymore. You might sell, but you won’t be a category lead without some real thought behind how people access your product.
I recently received an email from Washington Mutual about the upcoming rollout of their services on Chase.com…
During a recent trip to Barcelona I decided to catch up on some reading on the plane. I have several UX books piling up lately and admittedly I was behind. For my outbound trip I selected Peter Morville’s “_Ambient Findability_”:http://www.amazon.com/Ambient-Findability-What-Changes-Become/dp/0596007655, a book I have honestly had for a while, but time was never there. It was a quick, very digestable read – awesome considering how easily this could have become a convoluted mess. The book not only helps you understand how people find what they need, but what the roots of wayfinding are both in the digital and non-digital realms. It turns out my reading choice would be very appropriate for the trip.
Every once in while, the cheap route does just fine. I’m not one to accept parity, but sometimes you have to embrace the path of least resistance.
I just finished up a very short task with a non-profit client who was interested in some type of city/state/zipcode locator. Orgs in the non-profit sector are always concerned with the bottom line, and although that can be frustrating at times, in this case it seemed to have worked out.