Archive posts: July, 2008
The broad reach of a powerful stroke
You know its easy to say something looks good. Your eyes sit on the image, object or thing (for the lack of a better word), and feel at home. Great paintings, while classical or contemporary, have an appeal that let us identify it as good or great. While there will undoubtedly be disagreements as to what is great and what is not, in general we all have a similar understanding of what something good is. Case in point, beautiful women would not...
The art of teaching web design
After reading a friends blog post on weather or not people in the web design/development profession needed degrees, I thought that a couple of important questions needed to be asked. First and foremost; If the nature of our business is clearly represented by and eternal changing playing field, then is the auto didactic nature of most of its...
Be proactive! Take the Survey
Yes kiddies, I took the survey! For all you web professionals, designers and developers alike, do not forget to visit a list apart and take action by completing the survey that speaks to our field and our needs as professionals! This is really important as it helps build strong knowledge base of who and how our profession is practiced. This also helps...
A brush with fame
Life kind of trips you up with surprises. Thursday i got an IM from my cousin saying, "wanna go to coldplay" i said yeah! then she said "ohh do you want to meet the band?" I was like what? Come friday night i saw one of the best concerts ever and I got to meet the band. That was the trippiest thing ever. And after all that, and always thinking im prepared, i had a camera, but i made it into none of my final shots cuase go...
Getting your users/Customers involved
The art of listening to the masses The food service industry has always been kind of the first to acknowledge that the customer is always right. Recent trends in web design and usability standards have focused on the "customer " in a whole new way. By catering to the need of the user, design has guided...
Midnight Storming of the Castles
Midnight in the Valley of good and evil What happens when you gather with a person who shares a passion and history for tech companies like the one you secretly pretend you don't have. I had dinner and glass of wine, by the end of dinner i had agreed to drive through silicon valley looking for the companies and corporations that shaped technology in my lifetime, and i decided that it needed to be documented with a series of sporadic...
Desiging within one color, one brand
Challenges with making brand colors work with design. I work for Netflix, and I have been trying for the past 2 months to get used to the idea of designing with lots of red. In our quest to make the user experience's be king, we can start to look at other notable brands that have used their colors prominently and aggressively without sacrificing design integrity. Easier said than done. Most brands go through evolutions, colors end...
And so it begins
And so it begins In the summer of 1999 I was 16 years old, and as part of what i considered life experiences i needed to have before i was 20, I made the choice to attend a leadership conference aimed at highly motivated over achievers. I was not one of them but i managed to squeeze myself in because i was involved in so many extracurricular activities that my grades while lacking were not nearly as impressive as the list of things i seem to...