I was reading Justin Kistners’ blog, Metafluence, and came across his post “In search of a better way to design.” He makes the argument that wireframes are bad when it comes to creating interactive design. He then introduces the idea of page description diagrams originally introduced by Dan Brown at Boxes and Arrows. A page […]

It’s a dog eat dog world out here in the web design world and lots of time is spent checking out the competition, especially sites that outrank you in the SERP’s. Yesterday I was checking my ranking on a search term and came across Aetomic. When I landed on the site I immediately thought, “Self, […]

Designers, myself included, are always trying to prove that good design is worthwhile—I may do it too often here making myself sound like a broken record. When I visit a site to purchase a product, if the site looks like crap, I’ll look elsewhere for that product and even pay a bit more if necessary. […]

Before I started working at my last full-time gig, anytime I would design a website I’d start off with the design and almost always found myself wondering what I would do with the navigation. The sites didn’t always provide the best user experience and I didn’t know how to go about fixing this problem. Then […]