Stuff I notice. Not exactly a blog.
thoughts
Tweaking a site I’m not working on
It’s not my site but that doesn’t stop me from wanting to make it better.
“Never assume anyone is as smart as you” is actually great advice
I spent a summer working at an amusement park while I was in college. During orientation they told us visitors checked their brains at the door and to never assume anyone was as smart as you. People on vacation aren’t in the mind frame for deep thinking. They can also be a handy shorthand for […]
playing with grids
I need to play more, try out different designs without consequences and learn something new in the process. A magazine cover caught my eye, and I whipped up a quick sample grid for different browser sizes (desktop, tablet, mobile). The process was simple: quick sketch, create grids, write up html. Oh, and get an image […]
One brief to rule them all
From the UIE.com website: “One of the team members, always a different person, would read the exact same document out loud, word for word. The document, about three–quarters of a printed page, contained a tiny creative brief about the design they were working on. Reading it out loud was how they started every design meeting, […]
The art of logo design
“A logo is a stand-in for who you are.” This 6-minute video from PBS is an excellent peek at what makes a good logo.
Great observation and advice for beginners from Ira Glass
“What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap.”
picking on the peacock (or, usability fail at nbc.com)
Context is everything.
What went wrong with the Sparty logo?
I present to you a wildly unfair but also improved redesign of MSUs Sparty logo.